Britain to offer next-generation defense weapons to India

In my neck of the woods, it's called a bribe.

Strange how, just before the Brits invaded India, India was the richest country on earth. Yet, by the time they left, India was one of the poorest.

Good. Anything that isolates and weaken Putin is good.

Pukey2 04:37 pm JST

In my neck of the woods, it's called a bribe.

Strange how, just before the Brits invaded India, India was the richest country on earth. Yet, by the time they left, India was one of the poorest.

The Indian economist Utsa Patnaik estimates that between 1765 and 1938 the British Raj took some $45 trillion out of India.

"Not only Britain, but the whole of today’s advanced capitalist world flourished on the drain from India and other colonies. Britain was too small to absorb the entire drain from colonial India. So it became the world’s largest capital exporter, which aided the industrial development of Continental Europe, the U.S., and even Russia. The infrastructure boom in these countries would not have been possible otherwise."

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/British-Raj-siphoned-out-45-trillion-from-India-Utsa-Patna.html

The UK has a long history with shutting down arms manufacturers in India so that they would not acquire knowledge leading to improved weapons-manufacturing.

Ending Indian reliance on Russia is good for India and for the wider world. Anything towards that end it to be supported.

next-generation defense weapons

If tensions continue to get worse around the world, next-generation weapons may be sticks and stones.

The British gave India railways, judicial system, English language, civil services and Asia's oldest engineering college. They turned Indians into cricket and tea addicts.

All Indians should be thankful to them for taking on the white man's burden.

If ever Boris Johnson is kicked out as UK PM he can go to India and live in a palace in Rajasthan. Indians will be glad to build temples for him, just like many Hindus built temples for Trump.

There's a lot of racism behind the notion that the only reason why India (or Iran, Pakistan, and so many other 'countries of colour') aren't supporting the American/UK war on Russia is 'dependence' on Russia.

Imagine if someone said that the Japanese support for the 'sanctions' was due to its dependence on the US.

That it might be due to them seeing no difference between Russia's actions in Ukraine and America's actions in Syria and Iraq (and a long list of countries during my lifetime) or see the overthrow of the last democratically elected nationwide government and President of Ukraine and the resulting Kiev regime's war on the population of Luhansk and Donetsk and Crimea as significant factors causing Russia to invade.

And given that the military that India would be fighting with those weapons also has the keys and codes built into them to prevent them from being used against them, buying Iranian or Russian or Chinese weapons would be a better option.

Britain to offer next-generation defense weapons to India

Cut the BS already.

Are we expected to believe that these weapons only work when attacked?

Give Next generation technology to one of Russia’s biggest allies. Great.

These weapon will not stop this leader, backwards ways

I don’t have an opinion on the UK leader but his pics always remind me of the guy who showed up at the house party at 2am yelling “what happened to the party man!”

But the weapons deal? Well the above statement still works.

So the 'great European defender of Ukraine' is selling defense weapons to the nation who abstained from voting Putin out of the Human Rights Council. This bufoon's double-faced standards has no boundaries.

Second photo is priceless. Maskless BoJo wants to be careful with that left hand.

peter14:

Ending Indian reliance on Russia is good for India and for the wider world. Anything towards that end it to be supported.

Yeah, instead, get India to be dependent on the west. No thanks, it didn't work quite that well last time. It drained the life out of India.

Britain is not a major arms supplier to India.

https://www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/how-india-changed-preference-for-arms-suppliers-in-50-years-1780458-2021-03-17

India's top 5 arms suppliers

1) France

2) Russia

3) USA

4) Korea

5) Israel

Of those, Israel doesn't directly compete in big ticket items, leaving France, US, and Korea to duke it out for void left by Russian arms embargo for stuffs like fighter jets, submarines, tanks, and missiles.

Wannabe "British Bulldog", Boris, has just bulldozed himself into a new scandal in India (can't take 'im anywhere) by hopping behind the wheel of a British machine and posing for another self-promotional photo-op, not realizing that these UK brand bulldozers are being used to demolish sites sacred to India's 200 million Muslims. The world needs to wake up to the anti-muslim policies of Modi's BJP, and the UK to "bulldozer" Boris's demolition work on democracy at home.