Originally posted by ch1466
Ahhhh, listen to the Chinaman bemoan technology transfer to the Indians... It's enough to make you weep for giggling.
Maybe.. But the snickers are on other faces when Russia/China arm those militia in Arabia, and Israeli/American forces are the target of that.
The whole 'Taleban' boomerang that the Americans let shoot a couple of decades ago, has come back this millenium..
Of course when the /Chinese/ sold TBM technology to the Paks and then everyone on the planet, including the CIA, denied it. Well, that was just good
business too, wasn't it?
Can't argue with that.. But then again there's no point cribbing because we are the who've got to deal with it eventually..
Mind you, I think it's stupid to sell miltech to anyone in that benighted part of the planet but given this nation's MIC is fully vested in Vae
Victis Vickers selling our shirts to stay above water and there is also a clear effort on to create a 'regional ally' to backstop our flight from
the PG and keep the Paks honest about AfG (as the Cope Indias and other exercises suggest as being the 'new Phillipines if not SWATO' standup of a
defacto alliance), it's not exactly unexpected now is it?
The Paks will NEVER be honest about Afghanistan..
The F/A-18E/F being a trainwreck of airframe problems wrapped around a fairly decent (ACS + APG = NCW command node capable) avionics package is
probably the only reason it /could/ be sold. And is one of the biggest weakness' in the current Indian lineup of manual shooter/illuminator and MFFC
concept air power.
What was that weakness again? The prospective hornets or the MFFC approach itself? Or the lack of NCW?
Since, again, this influence-peddling is no different from what the Russians and Chinese are doing to prop up or transfer-enable nuclear technologies
into Iran and elsewhere, they are fools if they don't think we will not follow them down the same dark path of warmonger profiteering.
Like I said everyone's got their hands dirty.. Enough of this Gandhian neutrality India practices. time to get their hands dirty too.
The only question is how stupid the locals are in taking the weapons by which they will better slaughter each other in meeting the agendas of outside
interests. I don't suppose anyone will look at the precursors to WWI and see the similarities inherent to a 'war by proxy' setup.
There are smart ones who see through this as well,though they're not heard. However the bottomline is you cannot exercise your own free will unless
you have the ability to slaughter..
But hey, India as subcontinent militant superpower is the Chinese' problem, not ours. That is after all 'their' half of the world, isn't it?
Militant superpower?
Mod Edit: BB Code.
[edit on 7/2/2007 by Mirthful Me]
[edit on 7-2-2007 by Daedalus3]
