Modi strutted around like a cock in the company of QUAD leaders. India has made it to the white men's club. They must have trusted India to be one of them. Then Britain flew in a F35 to Chennai to let Modi take a photo op in the pilot's seat. If only the Brits trusted the Indians.
No way. The Brits did not trust the Indians a wee bit, despite India being a core member of the QUAD. Oops, the Brits were not in the QUAD. This must be the reason. The trouble ridden F35 had to make an emergency landing in Chennai, India and unable to return to its mothership, the Brit's aircraft carrier, Prince of Wales that were passing by.
The Indians tried to help by offering to move the aircraft from the open tarmac into a hangar. The Brits refused the offer, fearing that inside the hangar when the Brits cannot keep an eye on it, the Indians could mess around with the aircraft. The Brits want the aircraft to be on the tarmac, despite exposing to weather, but not inside the hanger in the hands of the Indians. They are afraid that the Indians would steal the secrets of the F35 once out of their sight.
This must be a big slap on Modi. The Indians probably would like to have a closeup view of the aircraft that they wanted to buy and promised by Trump in a deal. Unfortunately, they could not get near to the aircraft. Did the Americans have anything to do with the Brit's decision to park the aircraft in the open under the close watch of the Brit's pilots and crew flown in?
Whatever confidence and high hopes that the Indians think they have in becoming an ally of the Americans and the West turned into smokes. After 3 weeks in Chennai, the F35 is either going to be cut up and packed into a big transport aircraft to be sent back, or latest, might have been repaired and able to fly back on its own. No Indian can get close to it.
This is a rude awakening to Modi and the Indians. The white men have ungracefully told Modi and the Indians that they are not one of them, cannot be trusted even to take care of an aircraft. The only good thing coming out from this is that India can boast about having a F35 on its soil. Singapore had bought more than a dozen, fully paid, but still got no chance to even have a look at the aircraft in the city state. This may not happen at all in the lifetime of many Singaporeans.
Would India still want to be a member of QUAD? Or would Modi be sobbing in the arms of Trump, complaining about the Brits? How real was Trump's offer to sell the F35 to India?
6 comments:
Good morning All
For all you know the Brits and the Americunts may fly a soon to be scraped their hype F35 century old one to India.
If not how come breakdown so fast?
Scoundrels don't trust Scoundrels as they knew in their Evil Minds!
Where are Singapore's fully-paid F-35 jets ?
Hi Anon 10.22
The Sinkeland's F Jets are as arranged and paid for storage in the UAss for One Big Reason-
I.e To avoid been bombed and destroy completely by an enemy bombings.
Too small an Island to hide and parked at our Tamacs.
Also many at Fremantle Aussies Land as then can just fly over in any Emergency and Wars.
Also that stretch of the East Coast Runway takeaway all.the flowers display and make into runways for takeoff.
Apology should be Perth
Cheers
The Indians have been playing around with USA and China, and Modi thinks he is very smart. Now Trump is screwing Modi back by stuffing his tariffs down Modi's throat. India has little room to wriggle out, being not in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), nor is it inside the BRI which is promoting trade among the participating countries. India's neck is stuck in the USA and EU noose, and it is up to them to tighten it at will. India cannot do anything.
When the Ukraine war started and sanctions against Russia hit Russia's energy exports to the EU, India together with China and even Saudi Arabia, all bought discounted Russian oil and resold them to the EU, making huge profits. India, a friendly ally of the USA and EU had been screwing the EU countries for more than three long years, and the USA and EU thought India was on their side.
When China exerted control over rare earth exports to the USA, India bought rare earth from China for its EV and other manufacturing needs. If you have been watching, you will know that India was quietly reselling rare earth bought from China to the USA and EU. Now China has clamped down on rare earth exports to Sout Korea and India, after discovering that South Korea had been doing the same thing, by reselling Chinese rare earth to USA defense contractors. China's action against India has hit the Indian EV manufacturers hard and factories are said to be unable to move production, expected to be for months. It is going to kill off India's EV dream.
In all honesty, India's EV manufacturing still depends largely on China's supply chain. India is basically just doing the assembly of EVs, just like iPhones that still depends on Chinese supply chains. We do not have to look far to understand why Foxconn is moving back to China together with Apple and not investing further in India.
China screwed them both by providing the components for making iPhones at marked up prices, doing much more profitably than assembling those components into iPhones in China itself and making a meagre couple of dollars for all the hard work. Which is why China did not raise a ruckus seeing Apple and Foxconn shifting to India earlier. Why point out the mistake of your competitor when he is trying to screw you?
Oh, by the way Ursula von der Leyen is 'demanding' now that China must continue to supply the EU with rare earth elements, really big quantities. Can we see the desperation now? First Trump demanded, now the EU is demanding. Why should China sell more to the EU to be redirected to the USA for making more weapons for a war that is touted to be starting soon against China. Kids are fond of kidding.
India while trying to please its master, shot themselves in the HEAD!!
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