Drone Update: VIDEO: ‘We Have To Plan For The Worst’ - Gordon Chang

VIDEO: ‘We Have To Plan For The Worst’: Gordon Chang

On “Forbes Newsroom,” author and U.S.-China relations expert Gordon Chang shared his insights about the mysterious drones flying above New York and New Jersey, what he thinks President Biden should do, where he thinks they may be coming from, and a theory that they may be seeking out a possible nuclear threat.

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Jenna McCarthy

By now, everyone not living under a rock knows that thousands of mystery aircraft have been buzzing around New Jersey for the past few weeks, specifically and suspiciously around a US military research facility, a naval weapons station, the three major NYC-area airports, and a Trump golf course. Similar unidentified objects have since popped up over New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Maryland, and California, and just about anyone with a pulse has the same questions: Where are they coming from? What are they doing here? How panicky should we be? 

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been making the media rounds singing the same tired, condescending song, the refrain of which goes like this:

“♬You’re not seeing what you’re seeing, it’s nothing but a ruse;
your eyes belie you day and night, you silly little goose!♬”

Residents living in areas where the robotic birds are circling are understandably nervous. There are unconfirmed claims that some of the drones are spraying the skies with chemicals [adult language warning], which sounds sort of insane until you recall that China used drones to spritz public spaces with disinfecting chemicals during Covid. Lots of folks, including Trump, are calling for whatever-they-are to be shot down. And not even all of them! Maybe just one official one we can all agree on so we can at least figure out what we’re dealing with here?

Mayorkas insists people are making [flying] skyscrapers out of sandcastles.

“We believe there are cases of mistaken identity where drones are actually small aircraft and people are actually misidentifying them,” Mayorkas told a local New York CNN station. Actually, actually? ♬You’re not seeing what you’re seeing!♬ “There very well may be drones in the sky, but those are commercially available.”

May very well be? There have been over 5,000 drone sightings in the last month, with witnesses saying many are the size of SUVs, travel in groups, and hover in the same place for hours at a time. Bedford Township Mayor Michael Melham added that they “turn off the lights and evade police helicopters when approached” (a common description across all sightings), which I probably don’t need to point out could cause catastrophic aviation calamity.

“We haven’t seen anything unusual,” Mayorkas maintains. “We have not seen any unusual activity. We know of no threat or of any nefarious activity.”

Nothing unusual! ♬it’s nothing but a ruse♬ We see this every day! ♬your eyes belie you day and night♬ There’s obviously nothing threatening or nefarious going on here! ♬you silly little goose!♬

This from the Secretary of Homeland Security; the cabinet official tasked with safeguarding the country from threats and advising the president on security matters. Said president, you will be flabbergasted to learn, has had a grand total of zero words to say about this nonthreatening, non-security matter. None. Nada. Nought. Zed. Zilch. Bupkis. Diddly-squat. Sweet eff-all. But you know, the man’s undoubtedly very busy ruling the most powerful (?) nation in the world.

Imagine if you took your car to the shop because it was making a strange noise and your mechanic told you, “That noise? Totally harmless. Also I’ve never heard anything like it and I have no idea what’s causing it.”

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