While Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Schols adopted a pragmatic line that would have helped end the war, Johnson took a more aggressive line that ruined the chance of peace.
In the US, the 'spy balloon' incident put the administration on the back foot, with some Republicans even calling for the resignation of President Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris.
In an eyewitness video posted to social media, the balloon appeared to disintegrate in a white puff before its remnants dropped vertically into the ocean below.
US officials said an F-22 Raptor fighter jet shot down the balloon with a single AIM-9X sidewinder missile six miles off the coast of South Carolina at 2:38 pm on Saturday.
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All through the last two years, the president's performance was under the scanner; all his gaffes, verbal slip-ups, apparent memory mix-ups and cognitive failures were in sharp focus, so much so there was an unstated consensus within his team that the President will not seek a re-election.