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Originally Posted by Asim Aquil
Why'd he get into something so difficult anyway?
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Damn good question. No doubt there was some commercial pressure. The so-called MRCA tender may have had something to do with it, desire to get a piece of the Indian defense pie for Lockmart, Boeing, I don't know. Quid Pro Quo.
A desire to appear balanced wrt Pakistan is obviously a factor. We give F-16's, etc to Pak in reward for cooperation in the WoT, then we have to offer something to India to compensate.
A desire to gain influence with India wrt Iran and China. That's something that India should be asking us for, imo, not the other way around. The threat to India (from China especially), is much greater than the threat to the US.
It's all a joke. You can't buy friendship, you can't buy trust. It has to come from ideological compatibility. We spend billions every year so that Egypt and Israel pretend to like each other, and nobody is fooled in the slightest...
As far as I'm concerned, everyone in the region can have as many nukes as they want. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, KSA, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Pakistan, India, Libya, everyone. Within 20 years the problem will solve itself, and whoever survives can have the spoils with my blessing.
You guys all want to have a nuclear arms race, go for it. It's more expensive than you think. Just ask Russia.
Just don't ask us to come clean up the mess when it's all over....