America’s balloon obsession is an attempt to prevent detente with China

USAF sent its much-touted F-22 fighter jets to shoot down the balloon. The jet that costs $334 million apiece and nearly $70,000 per flight hour fired a nearly half a million dollar missile to down a weather balloon, as if the target was no less than an alien spacecraft invading the US.

‘We Want to Diversify Ties with India,’ Says Russian Ambassador Alipov

Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said that Russia wants to diversify its overall cooperation with India and the ties between the two countries are not directed against anyone at a conference on ‘Next Steps in India-Russia Strategic Partnership; Old Friends New Horizons’ in New Delhi