NYTimes is reporting that this is actually the fifth balloon to cross into our airspace. First four were seemingly ignored, three times under the Trump administration and once before during Biden’s.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-weak-response-chinese-su...
USA is being baited into war on multiple fronts.
(googles loon project)
"Neither side will actually do war so it makes sense not to fold"
And neither side wants war with each other, but if either side is pushed more and more into it from internal and external pressure, than I sadly would not rule out that possibility.