Are There Actually Chinese Soldiers In Canada?

 I have never posted about this but have seen plenty of articles claiming "The Chicoms are coming!"  The Common Sense Show is one guy who repeats this often.  I have seen his stuff but it just appears too unbelievable to be believable. You simply can't hide 50,000 Chinese soldiers on the border of Maine camped in Canada and not have trial cams, phone videos, drone pictures and lots and lots of people seeing the Chicoms stopping at the 7-11 for donuts and coffee.

It may seem like an updated version of the 1966 comedy “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians are Coming!” but there is nothing funny about conspiratorial ravings from the Twitterverse that Chinese troops massed along the border with Maine were schwacked in an airstrike.

Recent posts from a QAnon-backing Twitter handle with nearly 50,000 followers claimed that tens of thousands of Chinese troops had amassed along Maine’s border with Canada and that an F-16 fighter that crashed last week in Michigan was actually shot down — presumably by the Chinese.

(QAnon has, in recent years, become an increasingly dangerous conspiracy theory claiming, among other outlandish things, that President Donald Trump is fighting a horde of deep state pedophiles.)

While chatter about Chinese troops in Canada is steeped in fantasy, it is this kind of disinformation that presents a real threat, say a couple of experts in the information battlespace.

“This is in a sense information warfare,” Dave Lapan — a retired Marine colonel who served in several public affairs roles, including at the departments of defense and homeland security — told Military Times. “This is something we usually deal with from adversaries. And who knows? Some of this may be generated by our adversaries.”

If this information is not generated by them, it is at least amplified, said Lapan, adding that nations like China, Russia, North Korea and Iran “use social media to generate unrest” in the U.S.

“The gallery of adversaries are all involved in information warfare against us,” said Lapan, now vice president of communications for the Bipartisan Policy Center.

On Monday, the Twitter handle @stormis_us posted that “The F-16 in Michigan was shot down and I now believe that 50,000 Chinese troops were in fact bombed and killed by anti-personnel bombs. At the Maine/Canadian border.”

The information seems farcical on its face, but the handle, which states “THE TRUTH and FACTS. A Warrior for GOD and Christ, #VETERAN, #WWG1WGAWORLDWIDE, #MAGA, #TRUMP2020, #Conservative” has nearly 50,000 followers, with more than a mere few believing this post.

And yet, not only are there no formations of Chinese troops in Canada, but the F-16, which belonged to the Wisconsin Air National Guard, crashed on a routine training mission Dec. 8, killing the pilot, Capt. Durwood “Hawk” Jones.

Other accounts used pictures of howitzers on a train in Maine, which first surfaced in October, as “proof” that the U.S. military was responding to a Chinese incursion into Canada — RUMINT that bubbled up via some delusional trainspotter that was then knocked down by the local CBS affiliate.

Still, some on Twitter suggested Monday reaching out to people in Jackman, Maine, a town about 16 miles from the Canadian border, to see what they know.

The answer, of course, is nothing.

“There have been no military conflicts in or around Jackman in the recent past,” Town Manager Victoria D. Forkus said in an email to Military Times.

The Maine National Guard also dispelled the conspiracy.

“The Maine National Guard has no knowledge of any such troop movement,” Army Maj. Carl Lamb, a spokesman for the Maine National Guard, told Military Times in response to questions about whether there were any Chinese troops stationed across the border.

As for the howitzers, the real story is hardly as compelling as armor being rushed to the border to stave off the ChiComs.

The Maine Military Authority, said Lamb, had been refurbishing the howitzers, but those operations ended two years ago.

“Recently, the federal government decided to move the howitzers out of Maine,” said Lamb. “MMA was contracted to deliver the equipment to Presque Isle for transport by rail to their final destination. MMA’s contractual storage obligations ended once the howitzers were delivered to Presque Isle for follow on transport.”

Here;  https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/12/15/no-the-chinese-are-not-on-the-border-of-maine-and-the-dangers-of-misinformation/

"But Dennis!  That article is from the military times!  They aren't going to tell us the truth about the Chicoms getting ready to invade the USA when the financial collapse happens!"

And here lies the problem of the massive age of deception in which we find ourselves.  We can't believe anyone!  For every article saying something is true their is another that says it's false.

I haven't followed too much of what Q Anon is saying.  Maybe some of it it true.  But please remember that Satan is the Father of All Lies and how he hooks people is by giving them a little bit of truth.  Once you eat that the next bite has a twist on it.  Maybe just a little twist that you can hardly notice.  And before long he has you believing that George Bush blew up the twin towers and was in bed with the Al Qaida pilots who flew the planes!  And that 50,000 Chinese soldiers were killed by US Military airstrikes on the Canadian border.

So maybe many of you are convinced that the Chicoms are coming.  But I'm much more concerned about plenty of other things.  Let's not be the folks who are suckered in by someone who claims to have special knowledge and also claims to be a "warrior of Christ".