India-China Border conflict

[Jimih]

Biden admin Pussified

 

[skunk works]

Doing exactly what a leader should do, work for the betterment of their people. Don't understand why govt. doesn't yet allow democratic elections in Ladakh, J&K I can understand.

I support what's he doing. Sweet words have obviously not worked so he is taking the stick approach. Very easy to criticize from comfortable surroundings. Why does the center keep breaking promises? Seems like poor planning on their part.

 

[skunk works]

Biden admin

Why didn't they shoot it down?? Looking like cvcks if you ask me.

 

[Jimih]

Why didn't they shoot it down?? Looking like cvcks if you ask me.

Citing that debris will fall over their citizens killing them. That's a Pussified excuse.

 

[skunk works]

Citing that debris will fall over their citizens killing them. That's a Pussified excuse.

It's fucking Montana, more cows than people there
They are cvcks confirmed.

 

[Sanglamorre]

Citing that debris will fall over their citizens killing them. That's a Pussified excuse.

Yeah it has a built in parachute and they're acting like it's a guided missile

 

[Master Chief]

The helium balloon has the same air pressure as the atmosphere.. so strafing it will only bring it down after a few days.. Maybe shine a laser on it.. and blow it up with a laser guided missile .. But, are there laser guided air to air missiles ?
Best solution would be to send a few Rednecks with Chainsaws in another balloon.. and let them have a go at the CPC balloon.. That should deflate the Balloon quickly..

Anyway, an embarrassment for the US

 

[maximus777]

Send this guy to take care of the problem

 

[Butter Chicken]

 

[LETHALFORCE]

 

[mokoman]

Why didn't they shoot it down?? Looking like cvcks if you ask me.

i think real reason is that they want to take it intact .

 

[flanker99]

i think real reason is that they want to take it intact .

Or use it for propaganda value to shore up the chinese threat?..i mean what was the last time hostile atmospheric surveillance device moved across america unopposed?

 

[jai jaganath]

Yes India has seen these balloons many times as reported by Soldiers even Scientists only to be lampooned. Need to give hats off to Chinese. They are thinking and acting warfare innovatively and tenaciously.

And we say they are inexperienced and lesser trained
Their thinking is of true military domination on the globe

 

[mokoman]

Or use it for propaganda value to shore up the chinese threat?..i mean what was the last time hostile atmospheric surveillance device moved across america unopposed?

yea , plus now boeing - lockheed martin can go ask US senate for bazillion dollars to make missile to shoot these safely down.

 

[flanker99]

Is there a question by looking the way they are building ships
U can see in nest 5 years they will have more ships than USA

They already have more ships but USN still has way more gross tonnage and missiles

 

[mist_consecutive]

His today's dhamkiya:

“The fear is not that people will turn against India, the fear is that love for India will subside and it is dangerous for a country that is facing the Chinese. Unlike people in Mumbai and Delhi, people here have helped the Army during war by acting as porters and supplying food,”

Yep, as aptly said, these are "dhamkiyas", no more substance out of them. Sonam Wangchuk is a scientist and a scholar, there is no radicalism in him.

He started with "glaciers are melting, ladakh will be destroyed due to unabated development fighting for climate" to " better under Art 370 -35A give us 6th schedule or youth will join militancy".

What exactly he is fighting for?
Climate or politics?

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It is possible he is looking an entry into politics. If govt. announces democratic elections, he has a strong candidature for CM from non-BJP parties.

Of course, not only do they want statehood they want "outsider-free" Ladakh.
They want all the jobs and land to be reserved for locals and they themselves can do whatever the want in the whole India.

Isn't this the case for pretty much every tribal-dominated state ? Arunachal, Nagaland, Mizoram, etc. all have total control over their lands & jobs. Heck, you can't even buy a piece of land in Himachal, Ladakh is still pretty far.

Not saying it is the correct thing to do, but if multiple other states are doing the same thing, there is nothing wrong in asking it for Ladakh aswell.

 

[mist_consecutive]

Citing that debris will fall over their citizens killing them. That's a Pussified excuse.

Bullshit. They want to study it, even Americans are bewildered about the circus trick China is using. The balloon is flying at a mere ~10,000m which is below the service ceiling of fighter aircraft like F-16s and F-15s.

 

[Bharatiya]

Yes India has seen these balloons many times as reported by Soldiers even Scientists only to be lampooned. Need to give hats off to Chinese. They are thinking and acting warfare innovatively and tenaciously.

And we say they are inexperienced and lesser trained
Their thinking is of true military domination on the globe

Whatever state China and India are in today have strong roots when the became modern republics.

A country that comes on top is the one that is willing to dominate and get its hands dirty.

US grew because it grew at whatever cost and ripped out the talent out of Europe when it got the chance. It maximized its benefits and ruthlessly crushed Japan and kept it under check since then. Whenever any threat to its dominance appeared, it crushed the threat. There were mishaps, but generally, that's how US state behaved.

China too had the same ambition, if in a different flavor. Right since the days of Mao, China never really tried to be 'your friendly neighborhood country'. Mao might be called anything but he was a very good strategist. Unlike our coconut mulla, he had the foresight to see China would benefit by conquering Xinjiang, Tibet and other regions. China proper would be secured and China would only have to face the threat of USSR (if conflict ever arises).

Even as China grew rich, the slogan was to hide your light and bide your time. Bide your time for what? World Domination, in one form or another, had always been a Chinese civilizational dream so to speak. It's a unifying narrative that rings across all echelons of their society. They didn't have the resources to achieve even a fraction of that dream, but they always had the will and worked for the capabilities. This domination might not be a military domination per se, but more of a hegemony, like how US controls its vassals today in private but calls them allies in public.

For better or worse, US is China's bogeymen. Due to the very nature of its govt, CCP has to be cautious of US. So, US is their default enemy. Even if US does nothing but exist, China will try to dominate US, without inflicting major costs on itself.

So, regardless of what US does, China wants to advance forward. On one hand, it says the development is for people—which is true—CCP's social contract is economic development of its populace. But equally true is that China wants to grow so that it can remove the only threat it has—US. I think the Chinese are very clear on this. The target has always been the US.

According to some articles I browsed in the past, while China considered US to be its enemy, it also sought to learn from US' economic might. But the 2008 crisis brought a massive perception shift. After the disaster, US no longer 'qualified' to be China's teacher. By then, China reached top 3 in economy and was roughly a third of US in gdp.

With both changes in perception and new capabilities, Xi's ascent was the final nail in the coffin. The Civil-Military fusion, the rapid and massive modernization and the massive propaganda, spy network, debt diplomacy—all took place in just one decade.

China is in the next phase. In a way, it stopped 'catching' up with US and started competing with it in the cutting edge technologies. In some areas, it's actually doing better. US' key advantage has always been the massive talent and insane capital to invest in that talent to lead in cutting edge technologies. China is using its vast population pool and its own money as well as the global investors' to build its own technology to compete with the US.

While this cold war continues, an increasingly richer and stronger China will try to make permanent changes to the world. It might or might not be through a full-scale war. But if needed, China could possibly opt for a short but intense 'military operation' of sorts. If a much smaller Russia could shake Europe from sanctions, what would sanctions on a highly integrated Chinese economy result in?

The Galwan, violating Taiwan's airspace, or poking Japan's disputed islands—these are all done at a very precise measure. They're small enough to not warrant a major military response but large enough to achieve their targets.

Against India, China has the massive resources and technological advantages. They have the 'initiative'. When China likes, it can cause another galwan, clash with Indian soldiers, for whatever reason it might be—political, economic or just to distract its people or to check India's military preparedness.

These aren't big things for Chinese state because they are simply poking the elephant and seeing its response. They know we don't want war and they'll exploit that to the fullest.

India needs a strategic vision and honestly, a desire to dominate. I'm not saying we should be wishing for chaos, but to fulfill our strategic vision, we must be willing to resort to violence, overtly or covertly.

We're still playing catching up with China and US. Today, they're very far ahead of us. While it's good to celebrate that we're number 5 and would be reaching number 3 spot, we need a solid vision and the strategic thinking to become The Top Dog.

Our first trial is our own neighborhood. We need to dominate or at least, keep the subcontinent under control—especially pakistan and the radicalizing Bangladesh. Now, instead of thinking like we usually did—end terrorism in pakistan or make more ties with Bangladesh and improve economic ties and it'll solve all problems—we need to try solve these problems at the very root.

The root issue is simple. Muslims, at least, south asian muslims are very susceptible to mullas, medias and basically all brainwashing by anything 'Islamic'. It's probably illiteracy or poverty or maybe it's just the way muslims are. We should look for a way to put a full stop to the existing radicalization and also prevent any possiibility of radicalization in the future. Soviet Union comes to mind. So does Saudi. Or other countries that have successfully kept their population de-radicalized and even sort of immunized their society at large.

Anyway, what we need is Strategic Thinking and for the Long Run.

For all our strategic ambitions, we need to grow rich and grow rich fast. Being $6T economy when we have 2 or 3 countries with $3T or $4T won't put us in a different league from them. Our goal should be to cross EU at least. It's almost a static target, set at some $18 T. The day we cross the entire EU, there'd be no doubt about our economic prowess. We'd be in the big three.

If we keep the right mindset of thinking, then we'd be focusing on acquiring the critical technologies or at least having control over them. Make our own chips, weapons, electronics and big internet platforms like google, facebook & amazon. These big companies are ultimately American. We can't trust them in critical times. The fact that we rely on them so much now should be alarming. We need our home grown ecosystems. There are technologies we need to catch up in. Lots of them. It's a long, long journey, possibly for our entire generation.

At least by 2040, we should've caught up with them and start competing. For that, we need to plan and act from now.

 

[mist_consecutive]

 

[AnantS]

^ so that means Indian Chinesse war shall hqppen before 27