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How many of the permanent members could do that until 3 decades ago? When was the last time Britain or France sent a man into space? Besides, how many permanent members could claim to do all that just 3 decades ago?
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In 1948 with the exception of the USA, all the other members of the P5 were still wrecked by WW2. Since that time they have all gone onto do those things I listed, India hasn't. Granted France got the Marshal Plan, and Russia got the plunder of eastern Europe and China's industrial basin. But China started with less than India and has now surpassed her in every area.
Europe may not be concentratign on putting men in space, but her probes to other worlds are now at least as important as NASA's.
India can barely build a tank, can't build planes, modern submarines and lags behind economically and in literacy. How exaclty does she deserve to be part of the P5? Beucase she built nukes in defiance of the world and started a nuclear arms rac eon the subcontinet? Well then lets add North Korea, Pakistan, and Israel as well. Ohh wait North Korea, Pakistan and Israel can build tanks in signifigant numbers, India cant. Israel can also build planes and submarines.
India's sole claim rest on the size of it's exploding population, and that is simply not enough. When she can also build tanks, planes and submarines and gets into orbit, and pushes past the 90% mark on literacy. Then and only then will she have earned the right to make the P5 into the P6
OoE, France did the best she could, she jsut tried to fight the wrong war. Russia mad ethe same mistake and more Russians marche dinto captivity than Frenchmen. The differance is Russia had the strategic depth to learn form her mistakes, France didn't.
FF, FFI units were active on the allied side form the begining of the war to the end of it.