India's reaction was appropriate: Former US NSA John Bolton on Balakot airstrike

Former US National Security Advisor (NSA) John Bolton, in an exclusive interview to India Today, said the Balakot airstrike by Indian Air Force (IAF) was a crisis well handled by the Indian side. John Bolton, who has recently released his book 'The Room Where it Happened', said that during the Indo-Pakistan crisis in 2019, India showed restraint and acted in a balanced way.

"This was potentially a very significant military confrontation, very risky behaviour on the Pakistani side. The US spoke to India as it is a part of expanding and deepening bilateral US-India relationship. We have many common threads. We have some issues which need to be resolved between the US and India, but there's no underestimating the stronger India-US connection," John Bolton said.