That escalated very quickly into country bashing.
No, it was strictly limited to diplomatic bashing of calling out governments for their policy (who is reliable or not) that was eventually brought down to stupid things at multiple instants.
We'll all I can say is that despite our corruption, crazy leadership, strategic security blunders (like ejecting US bases), we still manage to achieve an almost 30% higher GDP per capita than India, which is not likely to change in the forseeable future
As if we don't had same problems, got one of world's poorest country in 1947 (with GDP per capita a fraction of Africa), got balkanized into pieces, didn't even grow in first 40 years of independence and faced major wars from neighbours and geopolitical challenges from great powers.
India yet recovered againsy Phil very fast since late 80s & will surpass Phillipenes too.
As growths of GDP per capita's have been running close and I don't wish to ruin the discussion again given India & Phillipenes are totally different kind of countries, I'm going to stop this freaking drama here.
The only problem with our country is its aversion to mske the military more powerful by buying newer weapons since we have a bad experience with them since Marcos time.
That's actually a positiveyears t. Whom you gonna fight with that military?
We have a crazy neighbor with an economy of roughly around your size who has squeezed itself up investing in military & finally has headed to bankruptcy.
It's stupidity & will to compete with an 11 times bigger country has beard a serious existential threat & diplomatic implications for it.
Earlier this country (Pakistan) sometimes in 60s & 70s, was running neck on neck with Four Asian tigers in growth. It's economy is stagnant now for past 30 years & caught a "low income trap".
When your country has to generate wealth, it has to invest where it gets RETURNS & PROFITS. Military doesn't give any direct returns. It's only an investment to protect your assets or favourable status quo.
Unlike crazy US & Russia, China & India have been investing very low percentages of GDP on defence (still defence budgets are large because of economies) and will only grow when transfer & into true high income economies or devleoped countries.
The F-16 was designed from the outset as a dogfighter with sevondary attack capabilities (multirole). It is an excellent dogfighter that has kicked F-15 and F-18 a$ses in numerous training dogfights. And with SABR AEASA radar, new avionics, updated EW suite, AIM120D, the brilliant dogfighter will get long range and agile fighting capability even if AWACS are not around.
The matter is where it would fare against the same class aircrafts that will arrive in upcoming years. F-16 is a 70s aircraft which is being integrated with modern systems today. Why not integrate F-15 & F/A-18 too with same 5th generation weapons to make them 4.5 generation.
So if it's only MKI that the new Blk70 has to deal with then you'll be sorely disappointed.
We aren't going to remain sticked to same planes till block 70 arrives. MKI being another class fighter at default will always continue to outperform F-16 in various aspects.
Thankfully US and India are allies now.
Means we'll get our recognition as P6 nation?
