Indian Rafales are the best fighter aircraft in the world...because Indians said so

 Rafales are the best fighter aircraft in the world, better than China's J20s. This was their premise when buying the Rafales after being rejected by the Americans. The Americans are well known for spreading lies and believing in their lies. India is slightly different. India believes in their own beliefs and bragging. They believe that the Rafales are the best aircraft to challenge China's air superiority.  Oops, not challenged, they really believe that with the Rafales, they can knock out the J20s, 5 J20s for every Rafale lost. 

The Indians were so confident of their belief in the Rafales that they started the war with Pakistan in Operation Sindoor. Their main objective was to tell China that the Indians now have air superiority over China and can threaten China. And they will prove it by knocking out Pakistan Air Force for a start. They could not believe that it turned out to be a false start, an embarrassment too hard to swallow.

While the whole world was gasping in disbelief at how easy the Rafales were taken out, India went silent and into a state of denial. 5 or 6 Rafales being taken out were no mistake, no accident. It was convincing enough to shut the mouth of Dassault, France. India did not stay quiet for long. A month after the embarassing war, India mount a campaign to tell the world and the Indians that they won the war against Pakistan. India can win any war anywhere, not necessary in the battle field. They can invent their narratives to please and flatter themselves.

When the world thought India's romance with the Rafales was over, India surprised everyone by making a new order for another 114 Rafales. India has no choice. The aircraft that is left that could challenge China's J10s and also J20s is the F35. Not tested yet, just American bragging. But the Americans would not sell to India. Russia's SU57 is a possibility but the delivery date could be another 10 years down the road. And India's own make belief Tejas, more like a trainer aircraft, is way behind the real thing. This is the only bragging that the Indians also don't believe, that the Tejas can even come near the J10C. India only built the airframe and everything else needed to be imported, especially the engine. India by now would have known that the Americans had written India off and even low grade engine for the Tejas would not be available. The Tejas is India's dream fighter aircraft but unlikely to be anything meaningful.

Now that India has decided on the Rafales again, the same narrative of air superiority is being repeated. India is comparing the Rafales with the J20s now, not with the J10C despite a good rubbing in Operation Sindoor. Indian analysts and media are now claiming how superior the Rafales are and how bad the J20s are, that the J20s have so many flaws that it would be a walkover when pitted against the Rafales. With the order for another 114 Rafales, India already defeated China's J20s and has achieved air superiority over China. But no Indian Rafale will dare to fly nearer than 200km from the Pakistani border. You know what this mean.

To the Indians, they believe that their choice must be the best in the world. And better still, they are being flown by the best Indian pilots in the world. This combination will make the Rafales the best in the world. The J20s will be no match to the Indian flown Rafales. The Rafales will knock out the lesser J20s easily. An Indian 4.5 gen Rafale, not the French flown Rafale, is more superior than a 5 gen J20. Period. The Indians are very happy that they have won.

Arab and Muslim states' independence still a pathetic joke

  How many Arab and Muslim states are really independent states? How many are really colonies of Israel or the USA? And how many are crawling to kiss Trump's ass? These are questions that the Arab and Muslim states would not want to ask and would not want to talk about. They also did not want to know or admit that the Americans and the Europeans are their greatest enemies, killing the most Arabs and Muslims in the past and still doing it openly in the Middle East and Africa. And the Americans and Europeans are now amassing the biggest armada and forces in Arab and Muslim lands in preparation to bomb and kill another Muslim state, Iran, and killing Iranian Muslims. Without the Arab and Muslim states as accomplices, conniving with the Americans and Europeans, by offering their lands as launching pads, the Americans, Israelis and Europeans would not have it so easy to destroy Iran and kill Iranians. 

The Americans and Europeans must be laughing themselves sick at the Arabs and Muslims for their cooperation and collaboration to destroy Iran and killing Iranians. The so called protest against the Americans and Europeans, not allowing them to use Arab and Muslim lands to attack Iran is a joke when all the attacking forces and military hardware are in the Arab and Muslim lands. Can they stop the Americans and Europeans from attacking Iran from these bases in Arab and Muslim states?

For those that are de facto colonies of the Americans and Israel, no need to embarrass them by calling them out, there is nothing they can do about it. Militarily too weak to change the status quo. What about those that could be free and independent, but everyday hoping to kiss Trump's ass, to take photo ops with Trump and ignoring the genocide in Palestine, and what is going to happen in Iran?

Some even officially signed defence treaties and cooperation agreements with Israel and the Americans to attack their Arab and Muslim neighbours. Do the Arab and Muslim states ever think of breaking free from American and Israeli control and bullying? Or they have resigned to be de facto colonies, to be bullied and control by the Americans and Israelis, to allow the Israelis and Americans to take their time to kill them and take over their lands to form Greater Israel? 

Where is the pride and dignity of the Arab and Muslim Civilisation? If they cannot openly oppose and resist the Americans and Israelis, at the very least, they can adopt a passive resistance policy towards the Americans and Israelis by not sleeping with their murderers. Stop having American military bases in Arab lands. Stop allowing American and Israeli forces in their lands to attack Iran and any other Arab and Muslim states.

Isolated India, Modi desperate for friends

Allow me to once again talk about Hindu fanatic India, with Modi now hugging Netanyahu of Israel and attempting to juxtapose itself as the 'Israel' of South Asia, trying to bully and control other Muslim South Asian countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), Maldives and even Indian States like Kerala and Gujarat. Elsewhere, India is surrounded by Buddhist states like Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan, that have no interest to support the Hindu fanatism ideology in Modi's India.

The action of Modi, with his anti-Muslim agenda and mistreatment of even his own Muslim population inside India cannot be dismissed. While anti-Muslim sentiment is dismissed as an internal matter for India by Trump, the USA and the West have accused China of mistreatment of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, considering it as a non-internal matter to be adjudged by the USA and the West.

India is boxed in by China and Pakistan and Bangladesh, all its potential enemies and therefore Modi has been suffering a siege mentality for decades. When Pakistan and Bangladesh began to have closer relations with China, it rattled Modi and he is hoping to garner support from Israel and the USA to counter his sieged position.

India is just like Israel, surrounded by unfriendly neighbors and needs the support of the USA and Israel. Modi can gloat about how close or steel-clad his relations are with the USA and Israel, but Trump is obviously not treating India as such, with his tariffs against India as an example. Modi can crawl on all fours hoping to be treated better than others from Trump but is making a fool of himself.


Anonymous

Japan trying to move into AI, is just like people trying to build drones from scratch while DJI is miles ahead

Japan is now ranked fifth in global GDP rankings, behind India. True or not is all in the statistics, although most would disagree, comparing the living conditions in Japan and India and their per capita GDP.

The Indians are, of course, salivating at the prospect of having overtaken Japan, as always with a song and dance, but let us be honest. Japan falling to fifth from world's second biggest economy is a big drop and would probably fall further.

Japan has huge problems regarding its economy, which is still stagnant after more than 30 years fighting a losing battle. Japan's massive debt to GDP ratio of 236% is one big problem to overcome with interest rate rising. The spat with China is detrimental to Japan, with China putting its slow-motion squeezing by inflicting long-term pain for Japan. Tourists from China are not visiting Japan and is causing serious problems for the Japanese tourism sector. China's ban on Japanese seafood, lifted not long ago after wastewater discharge from Fukushima, is back in full force and Japan's seafood industry is suffering. Most of all, the sanctions put on the export of critical rare earth elements by China is causing Japan's manufacturing serious issues.

Japan is meanwhile losing its last economic bastion in Motor Vehicles. Japan betted on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and lost the bet to Chinese EVs. The road ahead for Japanese car makers is difficult by being late to the EV party. Even Tesla, in the forefront of EVs before the Chinese, is facing severe headwinds from the Chinese.

Japan was probably too hesitant to change in many fields and could not catch up by being late. We are seeing the same picture with AI, with Japan now trying to enter the game when the others are already far ahead.


Anonymous

China's assets and overseas investments are up for grabs

 The old saying, if you cannot protect what is yours, it is not yours. This saying is increasingly applicable to China. It cannot protect its own little islands in the South China Sea against the Pinoys. It cannot protect Taiwan and Diaoyu Islands from the Americans, Japan and traitors. It cannot protect Nexperia, it cannot protect its oil purchases, paid upfront, in Venezuela, only standing there haplessly while the Americans told over everything, including its best friend, Maduro and wife. Its rail networks were blocked by Lithuania and Poland and it can only divert somewhere else, leaving behind what it helped to built. And Australia is taking back Darwin Port lease, with no compensation.

And the latest, Panama just seized the ports owned by Hong Kong's CK Hutchinson and revoked the licence to operate both ports. Again, China can just look in despair. The Panamanian thugs just rushed into the offices, rounded up the Chinese staff like criminals and took over everything, more aggressive than the what the Dutch did in the case of Nexperia. And these are little Mickey Mouse, and they simply messed up China with arrogance, with no fear.  This seems like the way to deal with China and its foreign assets. At best China just stop negotiating for new cooperation. US$4b of investment gone, just like that. Who is next to seize Chinese assets and properties?

What is China? A super power? Everyone knows the devil behind these Mickey Mouse. The devil even threatened to take over the Chinese owned Greece Port Piraeus. They gave up not because China was strong but because the Greek govt stood firm. At the rate this seizing of China's assets and properties overseas is going, soon everyone will join the game. Now in Europe and Latin America, soon it will be Africa, maybe Southeast Asia as well. 

All China's assets and properties overseas don't belong to China if it is not able to protect them, afraid to protect them. It is better that China stop wasting money investing overseas and embarrassing itself and it images as a super power, or powerless.  Don't waste money if you cannot protect them. India too had seized Chinese properties or imposed bizarre fines that were as good as grabbing them as Indian properties.

Maybe these investments and properties are too far away, in places that China cannot protect, like in the East China Sea and South China Sea. Oops, the latter two are in China's courtyard.

The last hope, the last saving grace for China, is to make a strong stand in Iran, to turn the table around. Losing Iran is as good as losing everything. Iran is close enough, strong enough, willing enough, and Russia is also in the game. China must use Iran to smash the devil to pieces, sink all its aircraft carriers and warships, military bases in the Middle East, chase the devil out from the region to redeem itself. If this can be done, the tide will change and China can then recover all its lost assets and properties. The Mickey Mouse will know that when China can defeat the devil.

Would China do it, or as usual, look haplessly and let Iran be run over, taken over, and its oil route be cut? Iran is China's last line of defence! Losing Iran will mean losing the Middle East, losing Africa and SE Asia.

PS. Taiwan is as good as an American colony!