The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV wants to say a few words about what he calls Beijing Balloongate, and he doesn't care if this were a month and a half ago. He derides Beijing's response of "calling for calm" as an unaccountable response, and he was hoping that defense officials would say the same thing. He understands full well there are times for a defense dispassionate, but that wasn't one of them. He knows they don't want to be responding to "provocations," but they are the collective voice of America in response to Balloongate, and as far as he's concerned, their response was not strong enough. He also believes that those 2-3 other balloons that got shot down -also- came from hostile countries, and he dismisses a report that one of the balloons was supposedly a ham radio experiment. TSV keeps up on the Glenn Houser radio show, where he heard about the report, but TSV believes that the ham radio people actually lost their balloon in a tree somewhere, and was not one of the balloons that got shot down. Maybe some info would become declassified in coming weeks, but until then, he believes that each of the other balloons came from Russia, Iran and North Korea, respectively, and someone needs to -prove- to him they weren't until he's ready to believe otherwise.