President Putin is desirous of pursuing another Russian Empire, evidently, claiming to absorb Ukraine within its borders, while China has become an international power preparing to compete with the United States in trade and commerce. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is aligning with Taiwan to block any Chinese threat to that island's independence from off its shores, while NATO nations are supplying Ukrainian freedom-fighters with weaponry and planes to withstand Russia's waves of troops onto their land.
While fighting is occurring in Europe between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has joined with China in roaming throughout Africa--seeing how each of them can make themselves useful to independent governments there in difficulty over improving the local infrastructures, including bridges, railroads and constructed buildings.
Their presence in Africa, i.e., China and Russia, is in addition to bands of Muslim Jihadists who are embedded, it would seem, in Somalia, and in northern Nigeria, pockets scattered about other African countries, too, while the African Union, together with a contingent from the US military, seek to rout at least some of them.
Additional to the Chinese in Africa, China is recently in contact with Pacific islander governments, e.g., Solomon Islands, to establish trade and presumably assistance deals.
Be it also known that China has set up a military base in the Horn of Africa, and may be considering other base sites, given that the Chinese not only offer African governments assistance in local infrastructure projects but establish Chinese colonies in these African countries.
As to the balloons over the United States, President Biden has ordered they be destroyed by the US military.
The United States has had contacts throughout Africa for many years, as well as the former colony-settler countries France and England; and offer assistance through investment into projects carried forth on African soil, per usual.
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