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Because normally this would be a non issue, but the amount of people who were borderline mentally I'll has been exasberated by conspiracy theorists.
Hmmmm maybe because it would have made their republican overlord look weak?  Whereas right now republicans are going hard on their Cold War with china because democrats hold the senate and White House. >

Trump didn't even know the Chinese were violating airspace and spying.   They may want to go hard, but I can't think of anything weaker on China. >

Why on earth would Trump ever be tough on China, though? They were funneling money to him via his hotels when he was in office, and they gave his daughter a ton of trademarks. He even pays more taxes to China than he does to the US. 
His vitriol in rallies is just performative. >

It would be more revealing to ask, "why did this balloon trigger such a hullabaloo?" >

What a dumb headline, they weren't ignored....they weren't seen.
It says right on the article:

"As the NORAD commander, it's my responsibility to detect threats to North America," VanHerck said. "I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out." >

NORAD isn't the only eyes the U.S. has on the sky and they were allegedly informed after the fact by the intelligence community.
I was genuinely taken aback to hear that they found out from others too.