– $400,000 guided missile versus $12 balloon
At least one of the shot down “spy balloons” turned out to be a joke of a hobby club.
Martin Suter
“Granted,” Senator Ted Cruz quipped on Twitter, “US President Joe Biden provided a powerful deterrent to middle school clubs preparing to invade America.” The Texas Republican responded Thursday to the high likelihood that the US Air Force also used a guided missile to take down a small, harmless hobbyist balloon following the February 4 belated downing of a Chinese spy balloon.