Comments by "" (@manofsan) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. Pakistan merely assembles the kits which come from China. The Chengdu FC-1/JF-17 is a Chinese-designed aircraft. Pakistan may have provided its own demands to influence that design, but it's clearly a Made In China aircraft.
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  2.  Arup Ratan Mitra  he means the UFO which was apparently sighted by US naval pilots -- it resembled a tic tac (the mouth freshener candy)
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  3. I feel it's no coincidence that the rebel offensive coincided precisely with the start of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. That ceasefire freed up IDF to take advantage of a rebel offensive that was the brainchild of Israel and Washington, with an opportunistic Erdogan of Turkey as the facilitator.
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  4. ​ @Hello There - the crucial parts are made in China, and the "58%" minor parts are added on in Pakistan.
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  5. Pakistan shared centrifuge and other technology with Iran, and it could possibly do so with Turkey, with which it has very close relations.
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  6. @ Rafael Arandas, Afghanistan will certainly help India if there is war. Back in 1948, when Pakistan applied for international recognition at UN, only one country voted against this - not India, but Afghanistan voted against UN recognition for Pakistan - because Pakistan is in occupation of a large amount of territory stolen from Afghanistan by the British.
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  7. Under your rule restrictions, I think Turkey could get away with heavily dispersing its ground forces when traveling through Syria, rather than requiring strong air cover. That would make Israeli air strikes far less effective. The Maoist strategy of moving forward quickly & retreating or dispersing quickly should be fine, when the goal isn't territory but attrition. Again, Israel has shown it can only fight short, sharp wars and naturally loses in any attrition war.
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  8. If Iran were not willing to risk a war, then it would not have initiated the 10/7 attack on Israel in the first place. :face-purple-wide-eyes: Iran is currently behaving as if it has already received guarantees from stronger powers.
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  9. Need transforming giant battlecruisers :cat-orange-whistling:
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  10. "Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe? What's their phone number?" - Henry Kissinger
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  11.  @hellothere1656  - Pakistan doesn't build any wings. Wings for Chengdu JF17 are built by Chengdu.
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  12. China fought the US directly in Korea. Why didn't they collapse and break up then, when they were far weaker than today? Instead, it's US which got tired and fed up, and went for armistice. Now China is far more powerful. Their manufacturing base is 5X larger than USA's. Their ship-building industry is 200X larger than USA's.
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  13.  @hellothere1656  - IFF?? IFF is just a transponder. Technically it qualifies as "avionics" but that's hardly a key system.
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  14. Australia has security guarantees from the US, obviously. However, Australia is very economically vulnerable to China, and is the target of political infiltration by them.
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  15. I don't understand what the UN has to do with this
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  16. You forgot China-India
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  17. This analysis is from a year ago, without taking into account recent developments
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  18. Australia has Vegemite, which is a derivative of the older and lesser-known Corbomite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ1Qe1cOsl4 Any Chinese strike against Australia would be met with a Vegemite response through an identical delivery system, completely saturating the attacker and leaving behind only pork fried rice.
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  19. This missile fell faster than Biden's poll ratings. This missile fell faster than Biden's cognitive faculties. This missile came down faster than Zelensky's pants onstage.
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  20. I thought RDE is only being considered for missiles right now, since RDE has poor engine life, and at least missiles are single-use.
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  21. China is mercantilist open market in many ways, but Beijing's economic intervention to prop up failing industries & enterprises means a lot of hidden problems inside China's non-transparent system. True free markets require transparency, which doesn't exist in authoritarian China.
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  22.  @KN-jy8nr  I said this analysis came into existence a year ago. Anyway, this isn't a geopolitical channel, it's just about hypothetical military battles.
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  23. Judging by how badly all their forecasts for the Ukraine conflict have been so far, I don't think they can win a limited nuclear war.
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  24. How come no Israeli oveflights through Saudi Arabia?
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  25. Khmer rouge puppets still rule Cambodia
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  26. These northern polar shipping routes would only stay relevant as long as global warming continues. Otherwise, if global warming were to stop, then those routes would increasingly be frozen up again. The world is increasingly switching to electric vehicles and renewable energy production, so that hydrocarbon resources may be less used in the future.
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  27. China is upgrading its nuclear forces to present a credible nuclear deterrent to the US. I think China would be willing to use nuclear weapons first, in response to any US attacks against Chinese mainland. Here, we're not talking about attacks against China via some intermediary like Ukraine. Direct attacks by US forces against Chinese mainland would provoke reciprocal response by Chinese forces against US mainland.
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  28. It's a choice of one or the other - pick your poison. If US fights for Ukraine, then it leaves the Far East exposed, and China will have a cakewalk. The United States cannot confront both Moscow & Beijing at the same time. It would have been prudent not to cook up so much political rhetoric against Russia, including US politicians fighting each other in the elections by each claiming the other side was helped by Russia. In doing this, they needlessly burned bridges with Moscow, and now they are reaping the fruits of that.
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  29.  @ryman8989  the area of territory China has occupied is strategically very sensitive for India. They can't afford to let China use that territory for further escalation. Talks aimed at drawndown of military forces have failed, as China has reneged on its promises to pull back. At the very least, India will have to heavily fortify its existing positions near there, and there's a possibility it might have to launch limited operations to take the territory back.
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  30. @Xiaoxi Zhang China has been engaging in territorial expansionism against India, and China has always been India's most heavily armed border.
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  31.  @divyamgautam1407  I disagree - China has many mobile ballistic missile trucks to fire missiles at Indian airbases. Meanwhile, China can also quickly build makeshift air strips to increase its air operations against India. I'm not pro-China, I'm just trying to be realistic and not overconfident.
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  32.  @Johannesai1  fair enough - China's tendency is to prop up its domestic industries, particularly its state enterprises, which means a de facto state-managed economy. But I agree that the dominant feature is repressive authorianism.
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  33. ​ @Make America Great Again - fair enough - imitation is how everyone starts out. J-10 is obviously Israel's Lavi with slight improvements. I think China is more about mass production than about innovation.
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  34. It's US engine though, isn't it? Likewise, Korea has a fighter, Turkey has a fighter - all US engines though
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  35. anybody who doesn't follow your line is a "Russian bot" to you or will you decide to call them "Q Anon" next? flip a coin
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  36. I don't see how you can take a manned aircraft and just make it unmanned in the most optimized way. In order to be optimized as an unmanned aircraft, it has to be designed that way from the start.
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  37.  @duxd1452  "survival is victory" - then prepare to be disappointed on that too
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  38. yeah, but then if everyone uses lasers then aircraft can be obsolete too. And since lasers work best in a vacuum, then firing them from above in orbit down towards the aircraft might work better. So orbital lasers FTW
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  39. @YesYes-xb6he - you pretend that a United States which isn't subservient to Europe is automatically subservient to Putin. Your delusion does not recognize the right of Americans to live for their own ends. But that's what they fought a revolution for.
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  40. Nonsense, India only has problems with Pakistan, which is traditionally backed by China. Problems with other neighbors only started very recently, thanks to Chinese intervention in these countries. Wherever China shows up, problems soon start.
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  41. Binkov, show us a military confrontation scenario around Straits of Malacca. Show us a military confrontation scenario relating to String of Pearls. Show us a military confrontation scenario involving 2-front war, where 2 powers take on 1 power, like China+Pakistan vs India. Show us a scenario where India tries to blockade Indian Ocean against Chinese shipping.
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  42. that would be by land, not really by sea
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  43. They also mostly live near the coast because their entire country is a coast
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  44.  @uningenieromas  - Turkey was the main player in terms of the logistics side with arming, training, equipping the rebels. I feel that Israel and its embeds in the Biden admin were the main catalysts in triggering this operation. They wanted to get this done before Biden leaves office, since Israel wouldn't have as much influence with Trump compared to the very obedient Biden and his handler Blinken. Trump has already said he's not interested in getting further involved in Syria. But now that the operation is done, Israel can reap the spoils of another enemy toppled, after Saddam and Qadafi. Victoria Nuland must be grinning like a proud mama.
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  45.  @uningenieromas  - [1/3] Turkey/Erdogan was the main player in terms of providing logistical support to the rebels, arming, training, and equipping them. But Israel & its embeds in the Biden admin were the main catalysts triggering this operation.
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  46.  @uningenieromas  - Turkey/Erdogan was the main player in terms of providing logistical support to the rebels, arming, training, and equipping them. But Isr@el & its embeds in the Biden admin were the main catalysts triggering this operation. Isr@el wanted to get this done before Biden leaves office, since they don't have as much influence with Trump, compared to the pliable obedient Biden and his handler Blinken. But with this operation done, now Isr@el can reap the spoils of toppling Assad, after the toppling of Qadafi, after the toppling of Saddam. Victoria Nuland must be beaming like a proud mama. Isr@el and its US surrogates are the real Domino Effect in action.
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  47. if US diverts its troops to Ukraine front, then China will have a cakewalk in grabbing Taiwan, dealing a mortal blow to America's security architecture in East Asia.
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  48.  @Golden-lc6oi  - I got those figures from the Wall Street Journal. China was only authoritarian back then? What do you call now? Certainly US always gets tired in Asia, - because it's an Atlantic-leaning power. Asia's glass is always seen as half-emptry while Europe's glass is always seen as half-full. You'd never see USA spending tens of billions to save an Asian Zelensky - ridiculous.
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  49.  @Master-AGN  - China is basically an authoritarian capitalist state. They nominally call themselves a "Communist Party" - and of course their party's membership is huge, like in a communist country. So they've got both ends covered. They've got the market capitalism, and they've got the large country-spanning party. And they're >4X America's population. And they've got a massive manufacturing base. They're good at technology. If war over Taiwan breaks out, it's basically happening 100 miles from their shores - meanwhile the US mainland is thousands of miles away. It's not clear that a piddly American presence in nearby countries can offset the entire power of mainland China.
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  50. Haha - in the Asian NATO, if Japan is the Germany, and Australia is the UK, then India is the Turkey 😁
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