Agreed. So, what happened? Big economy should have meant more research, more innovation and larger military capabilities right? You have successfully given an example which argues against your point. So, thank you!
Tell me how?
It exactly supports my point. I said India will catch up meanwhile Russia will decline and gave a valid explanation of it.
If you will bring the point of
"should" do here, all giant economies invest heavily on defence and research. You don't need to tell them to do so.
Yes I can. It's called siege mentality. Throughout history siege armies have achieved great things. One of world's greatest offensive force, that of Gengis Khan - leave aside economy, they didn't have a country. And yet they were feared by all. The Vikings - massive military power. They had no great kingdom, forget economy. Japan WW2 - Massive military might, army of poor people. Country itself was struggling in poverty. Yet it managed to crush the mighty Manchuria, and let us not even talk about how great Uncle Sam struggled against the Japanese. Come to recent times - Russia. Second most powerful nation on earth (enough of Chinese bluff, the Chinese have rubbish hardware and worthless military, only thing they have is economy) So no, absolutely disagree with your point.
You can take similar example of Israel in modern time. A small state defeated entire United Arab Republic.
But again, how many
"wonderful" nations you have on earth?
Moreover, Israel defeated Muslims, but they also can't fight too long with a large Satan.
If talking Russia, they won't be that wonder at all. You insulted Chinese hardware (I won't comment) but have you ever checked the Russian tech?
Yes, they have powerful SAM systems like S-400 but have you ever checked, how many of their space missions fail, aircrafts crash and how much fuel even their engines consume.
Russia engines have a life of just 2000 hours compared to Indian ones in 6000 hours.
I had one rupee in my pocket, my friend gave me another. So I became two times richer. But does 2 rupees make me rich in 2016? This is laughable.
I had 1 lakh ruppees last year and I earned 1 lakh more this year (this looks substantial to feel richer.
)
I was world's 13-14th largest economy with $1.2 trillions and now I'm 7th with $2.3 trillions and boast of world's 4th largest defense budget and one of the strongest armed forces.
I was even behind Japanese few years ago, today my conventional forces give me edge over UK and France.
Because India is not a ruppee one economy. It's huge, very huge, so it's growth matters. You can use that argument for Bhutan (growing faster than us) who's a pathetically tiny economy and nothing even if doubled.
Pray what innovations are you talking about? I don't see the next Microsoft, next Boeing, next ThysennKrupp, next Pfizer, next Chevron, next General Motors, next Hyundai being Bharatiya. So, enlighten us about these innovations.
As of 2015, India filed more than 3400 patents, compared to 1300 last time.
And if you wanna call companies innovations, we have our own name in different fields as compared to Microsoft etc.(and brainchild, you only cite news about foreign innovations and companies, ever been about Indian?)
TATA Motors, Micromax (third most popular in Russia and 10th in world), Godrej Aerospace or I can list some nice R&D companies like Piramal Group?
I can't list up all here(nor I remember much but you are free to search on Google or on my threads).
I am a Hindu nationalist,
I'm Atheist. Atheism too has been a part of India historically.
but even a nationalist must accept ground realities.
But that nationalist must also
"update" the realities. A person has been reminding of growing gap between Chinese and Indian GDP per capita since 2008, meanwhile India has restored faster per capita income growth than China since 2014.
Some morons still call Indian poverty ratio is 22.5%(it's just 7.7% now).
I don't think it is that simple. One example is: Russian economy being almost shit in the 90s still had way more influence in Central Asia than China or the US. Russian economy is now smaller than US, CHN, IND but has more influence in the critical Central Asian region and it seems to be growing considering that the EAU is taking shape and moving forward.
- Russia is hegemonic power of that region at first place. India has influence in South Asia, similarly they're in Central Asia.
- Russia did not lose all Soviet era weapons during dissolution of USSR.
- Russia economy may be smaller than India, China or US, it's still not "pathetic" and among G20. Russia invests more than double in percentage on defense as compared to India. That's all.
Just to clarify.
What do you mean by this? 25% of GDP or manufacturing sector or something else; and also in which sectors primarily is this indigenization?
Intelligent person, I'm talking about defense sector.
We imported 75% of defense procurement and made 25% in India, toady, we have reduced to 60% imported and 40% is built in nation, we have target for importing less than 30% and making more than 70% in nation.
Now, understood?
