For the life of me, what I don't understand from these hypernationalist Indians is their unfounded confidence in thinking and declaration that they can easily take on China on any war. Where are they basing this dumb, bat-shit crazy assumptions from? They tend to express brazen attitude of dismissive towards China's fighting prowess not to mention their superiority attitude that anything Chinese military hardware is worse than useless but goes on to super hype their untested, untried, over delayed indigenous military hardwares like it's the best in the world ex. Arjun tank, Tejas, brahmos missiles, air craft carrier etc..
They have assumed that beating (Pakistanis will dispute this word) in their past engagements from 1967, 72? 99 and their counter-guerilla battles with the maoists somehow is transferable against China/PLA of the 21st century. What's worse, the west led by the U.S. are feeding the enormous egos of these Jai Hinds (the same strategy and machinations they did to the Ukraine leadership) planting in their giant heads that they can take on China easy. We know the reasons why so that if the conflict between China and India starts and turn deadly the same P.R. can be invoked against China although it'll be tricky due to the area of conflict but nonetheless the west will crank up the noise volume, the hyper China threat to induce their already primed public to endorse, support whatever measure the U.S. can impose. Doing so would at least cause enough damage against China that can and will affect it's Taiwan reunification overall strategic objective.
It's hard to pin down whether Indian hypernationalism aka 'Jai Hind + hindutva ideology' is a coping mechanism, pure arrogance, crude fascism, stupidity, Kruger-Dunning Effect, or all of the above. India is it's own enigma.
What's clear is that Jai Hind + hindutva doesn't make India stronger. But its not harmless to others either. This Jai Hind ideology had resulted in the deaths of 4 PLA soldiers and much larger numbers of Pakistani soldiers in the last few years. Through the self-delusions of Jai Hind, the Indians thought that Covid was killing China in 2020. That convinced them to attempt taking Aksai Chin, slice by salami slice. Their Jai Hind ideology convinced their Jawans that PLA soldiers are pushovers. That created the clash at Pangong lake, and the deadly clash at Galwan.
I have observed how ethnic Indian criminals and thugs operate in Malaysia. They very much prefer to take on victims who were in weaker positions. Such as when outnumbered. They only bully, not take on the challenge of a fight. But when a fight occasionally takes an unexpected turn for the worse. They would always flee, leaving their beaten-up comrades behind. This is no different from what I had observed from Galwan. The Indian Jawans can only bully, not fight like real men.
Many recently have been too optimistic in mistakenly taking India's rebuke of the West vs Russia as signaling a shift in Indian policy. I always say this: "Never ever, ever trust the Indians". They are not friends of China, no matter how close they are to Russia. India still hates China vehemently. Just look at the Indian media. One day they slam the US in a tirade about colonialism. The next day, they celebrate a USN destroyer sailing through the Taiwan Straits.
That is why no matter how low of a threat the Indian military poses to China, it must never be ignored. The Indians will always jump on the next chance of kicking China when it's down. Apart from the border standoff, India joins practically every Western condemnation and boycott campaign against China. Sometimes, India takes them a step further. Such as the blanket banning of Chinese apps, and seizing $726 million from Xiaomi India. If the West realizes their wet dream of a PRC - Taiwan war, India will certainly be there to backstab China.