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[gpt]

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Germany summons Chinese ambassador after an incident in the Red Sea in which Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at a German military aircraft.

 

[iewgnem]

Of course, he is technically correct. Everything will malfunction in a fighter jet after being hit by one of these.
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Not sure if saying your jets suffer from spontaneous structural disintegration is good marketing, or admiting they got shot down without even seeing J10 on radar.

Honestly a much better cope for the French would be to blame the pilot while for India blame the plane.

 

[GulfLander]

AntiCN twtr accts really triggered by a coffee chain Luckin coffee?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942368421733359823

 

[iewgnem]

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Making price go up to change people's buying decision in favor of lower price is kinda the point of tariffs. If prices doesnt go up, then there were no tariffs, lol

 

[sheogorath]

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At least they didn't hire Liz "The Lettuce" Truss

 

[tokenanalyst]

Not sure if saying your jets suffer from spontaneous structural disintegration is good marketing, or admiting they got shot down without even seeing J10 on radar.

Yes, saying that your jets disintegrated in the middle of a critical mission is not good marketing.

Honestly a much better cope for the French would be to blame the pilot while for India blame the plane.

The Indian air force doesn't want to be blamed for underestimating PAK air force early warning capabilities, they will never accept the blame and probably tied Dassault jets sales to not to blame them but Dassault doesn't want to accept the lost a plane in combat.

 

[neutralobserver]

Yes, saying that your jets disintegrated in the middle of a critical mission is not good marketing.

The Indian air force doesn't want to be blamed for underestimating PAK air force early warning capabilities, they will never accept the blame and probably tied Dassault jets sales to not to blame them but Dassault doesn't want to accept the lost a plane in combat.

Turns out Dassault has denied the statements .

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942627826571923729

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942628858697744513

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942589260626026756

This is just how Indians tend to operate. Spread lots of fake news then link said fake news to Wikipedia and then generate new reports linking to Wikipedia. Circular Fake News!

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

I honestly think the tech entrepreneur who creates a service to quarantine India from the internet will be the world's first trillionaire.

 

[taxiya]

I remember having seen a forum member here digging up some clauses in the SCO charter regarding membership revocation. IIRC it requires unanimous consent of all members except the one being kicked out.

It was me in the SCO thread.

Article 13 of the charter provides such mechanism to expel members, it is just matter of other members to agree on what is "violation and failing obligation", it is just the will nothing else.

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SCO membership of a member State violating the provisions of this Charter and/or systematically failing to meet its obligations under international treaties and instruments, concluded in the framework of SCO, may be suspended by a decision of the Council of Heads of State adopted on the basis of a representation made by the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs. If this State goes on violating its obligations, the Council of Heads of State may take a decision to expel it from SCO as of the date fixed by the Council itself.

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It was a "mistake" to let in India in SCO, but it will be a even bigger mistake to expel India in the short term in high profile. It would only serve the interest of US for SCO to do so. The best approach for SCO is to keep India marginized in the orgnization. India can only do some small trick without openly breaking SCO's decision made by majority which India still has its name signed up to. If India choose to do more, then it is its own decision to leave, then it is time for the expulsion and nobody but India can be blamed. Just look at how Turkey works in NATO, no matter how many noises Turkey is still treated and acted as NATO by all parties inside and outside.

 

[plawolf]

Not sure if saying your jets suffer from spontaneous structural disintegration is good marketing, or admiting they got shot down without even seeing J10 on radar.

Honestly a much better cope for the French would be to blame the pilot while for India blame the plane.

It’s far worse. Their massively hyped SPECTRA EW suite didn’t even realise it was being locked by J10s and PL15s and was showing all clear right up to the point the Rafales exploded.

Rather than use that to spin that the Rafales spontaneously combusted, it would have been far less damaging to not air that particularly bleak piece of dirty laundry at all.