About spending billions of dollors. Its Our money, you need to advice us based on your opinions? Where were you when we needed Billions of $ to feed the poor population when we got our freedom. On the contrary Gorshkov will deter your colonial tempremants.
This is laughable!!!! Last year we dutch people could hear on the news and read in the papers that India did no longer want to receive development aid and help coming from the Netherlands and other small developed countries simply because India felt that we were too small. Receiving aid from small countries could damage India’s national prestige as India feels it is becoming so superduper important that it has to behave itself arrogantly versus small nations, even if they are good willing. On the contrary, bigger countries like France could continue to donate to the benefit of the many deperately poor people in your country.
When you had your independence and you finished your little butcher, you went the way of socialism and the mistaken policies of import substitution and heavy protectionism. You simply chose the wrong side during the cold war. Furthermore, my country emerged ravished and heavily traumatised from the WW2 at that time and was fighting a colonial war in the Dutch East Indies; so we had other things to spend our money on. In those days we even received development aid under the Marshall plan.
The Netherlands has long abandoned its colonial ideology. We only retain several islands in the Caribbean that chose to stay with us, since they are so small that they cannot build a viable economy or state.
Why just take Maldives and Banglades. It can happen aywhere in IOR. And the Navy believes it Gorshy can handle it
Since you took these as example and that the Navy believes that is part of the problem. The airforce could cover these areas easily, but most likelt due to interservice rivalry the Navy wants to have their own planes to do it.
Its anybody’s guess Gorshkov alone won’t meet the defence needs. It takes a genious to tell that? IN needs 3 carriers. So tell me how do we suddenly build a 3 carrier force over night? It has to be in steps and Gorshy is first.
Well, why don’t you choose to build a decent carrier right away like Jonesy also mentioned. The AG has to be totally rebuild and will still remain rather inadequate. In the mean time you could have started designing your own carrier or subsequently start building it. Why would you want to have a crappy carrier instead of none for some time (although it is rather speculative to postulate that the AG would be ready in shorter time than a small new build carrier). With your growing fleet of SU-30MKIs you could have easily covered the likely areas of operation of the old carriers in the mean time.
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