What countries would be so dull to buy downgraded weapons from the Americans and the West?

 Countries buy weapons to prepare to defend themselves against potential enemies. Many are very clear who their potential enemies are and would want to have weapons that can defeat their enemies, weapons that are better than their enemies.  As for the Mickey Mouse, it is another story, a story of self delusions, buying toy guns and think they can defeat their enemies with real guns. Some Mickey Mouse think with one submarine they can defeat a country with 20 submarines. Some bought one or two sampans or fishing boats and want to take on superpowers with aircraft carriers.

In Africa and the Middle East, the enemy is often one country, Israel. The African and Arab countries know exactly what kind of weapons the Israelis have, mostly the best from America or Europe. And to prepare to defend against the Israeli attacks, they also bought American and European weapons. Theoretically this sounds reasonable. If they cannot get the best or better weapons than the Israelis, at least get the same weapons that the Israelis have to be on par with them. The problems start here.

For a long time, the American and the West have the monopoly of weapon sales. China and Russia did not have the capacity to sell weapons, either they were not good enough, did not have the production capacity or being rubbished by western media as inferior weapons, so it will be a waste of money buying them. The picture is changing when the J10C, rubbished by the West, took down 3 Rafales, claimed to be the best in Europe. This started the whole world thinking again.

Today, the problems of buying American and western weapons are obvious. The Americans and the West would not sell comparable weapons to the Africans and Arabs, weapons that would be better than what the Israelis have. They would not allow the Africans and Arabs to have weapons to defeat the Israelis. Period. The Americans and Israelis are also able to set conditions for the European countries on what they can and cannot sell to the Arabs and Africans. 

What the Arabs and Africans are getting from the Americans and the West are literally toy guns or downgraded weapons, and inferior to what the Israelis are having. It is like having a gun that can shoot at 200m while the Israeli gun can shoot at 400m. The moral of the story, the Africans and Arabs are buying toys that cannot work in a war against their enemy, the Israelis. Then why waste all the money and resources on such toys? For show during parades, .... we also have tanks, submarines, and F15s, but would be shot and taken down easily by the Israelis. It is the biggest scam the Americans and the West sold to the Africans and Arabs. Poor thing.

Did the Africans and Arabs know that they have been cheated? The same thing happened all over the world, especially in Southeast Asia. Fortunately, their enemies are not Israel. But if their enemy is an American poodle, and they are not the real friends of the Americans, especially if they are Muslim states, then the same F15s they bought would be like the Africans/Arabs vis a vis the Israelis. The laymen may not know this simple scam. But military leaders and commanders cannot be so dull to miss this crucial fact. By looking at the long queues in Washington and European capitals, it is apparent that the military leaders and commanders are really dull, as they are still dead set on buying American and western downgraded weapons.

And they did not bother about the kill switches embedded in the weapons, ships, aircraft and happily traded their hard earned money for such doctored weapons. Not only that, the Americans and the West would include many conditions for their used, and in critical moments, they would stop the supply of spare parts and ammunition to render the weapons useless.

The latest example of Thailand wanting to buy submarines from China and insisting that the engines must be German. They found out a bit late, that the Germans could go against their contractual agreement and refused to deliver the engines. This is the behaviour of Americans and western weapon suppliers. They can refuse to honour their agreements and contractual obligations. Why would dull military leaders and commanders continue to trust the American and western suppliers when trust is not their virtue? The breaking of such trust could mean winning or losing a war or having a fictional defence force, like toy soldiers.

Despite all the bad examples of how untrustworthy and treacherous the Americans and the West can be, dull military leaders and commanders would still form a beeline in Washington and European capitals to be cheated and to compromise the national security of their countries.

Not only that they are buying downgraded and compromised weapons, they are still using GPS that can be switched off, and using Apple mobile phones to be tracked and spy on. These military leaders and commanders are a danger to their countries when their mobile phones could leak state and military secrets to their enemies.

Stupidity has no cure.