Hua Bin – The Unz Review May 24, 2025
Since I wrote “the DeepSeek moment of modern air combat”, more details have come out about the battlefield outcome from the May 7 and 8 Pakistan India clash.
In addition to the 3 Rafales, 1 Su-30, 1 Mig-29 and 1 Heron UAV covered in my essay, Pakistan also shot down an Indian French-made Mirage 2000. Pakistan Air Force destroyed 2 batteries of the Russia-made S400 air defense system (the command center and one radar unit) with China-made CM400akg hypersonic land-attack missiles launched from JF-17, a fighter jet produced jointly with China.
Since this is the first truly high-tech large scale air combat in the 21st century and the first beyond-visual-range (BVR) air war, military experts and commentators are studying the battle in minute detail. I plan to write another short piece on the tech behind the Pakistan victory soon.
However, another aspect of the war has come to the forefront immediately after the war. That is the mass delusion indulged by the Indian government and press about the conflict. Rather than acknowledging its setback and reviewing its strategy, tactics and battlefield lessons, the Indians are trying to mask their defeat through outright fabrications and lies on a massive scale. It is going so far as to claim the clash an unqualified victory.
Indian government, its TV media (400+ channels), and social media are filled with made-up battlefield successes, destruction in Pakistan, and superiority of the Indian military. The wild claims include –
- No Indian aircrafts were lost and no damage to S400 (though wreckage of a Rafale jet was filmed with its tail number and two burial ceremonies were held for Indian soldiers operating S400 systems. Indian report said they were shot during border skirmishes, which defies any common sense)
- Indian air force shot down 8 Pakistan F-16 jets and 4 JF-17 fighters (no US-made F-16 even took off during the conflict as the US forbid Pakistan to use F-16 in conflicts with India)
- Karachi, the largest port city in Pakistan, was firebombed by Indian navy and one third of the city was destroyed (the footage shown on Indian TVs was later fact-checked to be Israeli’s bombing campaigns in Palestine)
- A coup d’etat happened in Pakistan and the army chief was arrested
- A retired Indian air force marshal claims the Chinese air force cannot use the China-made weapons as well as Pakistan so India has nothing to worry about a conflict with China
Right after the air war, the Indian government called in diplomatic staff from 70+ countries to announce its heroic victories; Modi went on a tour of the frontline and announced a 10-day national celebration. The Indian military was tasked to go on a national tour to share their battlefield successes with patriotic citizens.
When American and French officials confirmed some of the battlefield losses suffered by India, the Indian media, led by the famous BJP promoter and TV personality Palki Sharma, went into a frenzied attack on the inferiorities of US and European weaponry. They bombasted Trump for claiming to broach a ceasefire between the two belligerents. Their argument is India would have dealt an even bigger defeat to Pakistan without the ceasefire meddling.
To this day, most Indians are under the delusion that the Indian military has dealt Pakistan a deathly blow and emerged totally victorious and unscathed.
While shrill and high octane “news” reporting is par for the course in India, and BJP, under Modi, has long shaped and exploited wide-spread jingoistic Hindu nationalist fervour, the Bollywood-like mass delusion is over the top and probably without a parallel in military history.
It is interesting to explore what lies behind such mass hysteria that is completely divorced from reality and what this means for India and its population.
A quick AI search tells you the medical or psychological term for “self-fooling” is self-deception.
Self-deception refers to the process of misleading oneself to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. It involves cognitive biases, denial, or rationalization to maintain certain beliefs or avoid uncomfortable truths.
While not a formal medical diagnosis, self-deception is studied in psychology and psychiatry as part of defense mechanisms (e.g., denial or repression) that protect the ego from anxiety or distress.
I think this perfectly captures the psychological reasons behind the wildly delusional Indian national mood and character.
Since BJP took power, Modi and his cronies have intentionally fostered a ultra-nationalistic narrative about India’s greatness and Hindu superiority.
- India has launched unprecedented repressions of Muslims and deprived the Kashmir region (a Muslim majority region) its long-held autonomous status.
- India has embraced the fantasy to replace China as the world’s manufacturing center and top economic growth engine by opportunistically aligning with the US and the west. At the same time, it is exploring the Russia Ukraine war to enrich itself by selling Russian oil at inflated price to the west.
- India has boasted its economy has surpassed UK and France and will join the US and China in no time as the largest economies in the world while it is still behind Japan and Germany. To inflate its GDP, India has changed its GDP accounting method twice in the last 10 years and started to count cow dung as part of GDP as agricultural inputs. Grok estimates Indian GDP calculation included the value of cow dung and other manure at $4.7 billion in 2023.
- India has attempted to bolster its military by purchasing a hodge podge suite of brand-name weaponries from France, Russia, the US and Israel. India spent 7.8 billion Euros in 2015 to purchase 36 Rafale fighters, or 220 million Euros per jet, making it the most expensive fighter jet ever sold by that time. There was so much corruption by Modi’s cronies in the deal that Wikipedia has an entire entry dedicated to the controversy. Even after the corruption case was exposed, India decided to double down and spent anther $7.4 billion to buy 26 Rafale jets for its navy just this past April. That is a staggering price tag of $285 million per Rafale, a new world record.
This Pakistan India air war was initially intended by India to show off its new found muscle until it has its ass handed back by Pakistan.
Similarly, the Modi regime announced with big fanfare its Make In India campaign in 2015 to replace China as the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. It targeted manufacturing to reach 25% GDP by 2025. Instead, Indian manufacturing GDP was 13% by 2024, down from 17% in 2010. In contrast, according to CSIS, value-added industrial output accounted for nearly 40% China’s GDP (vs. 18% in the US). Given China’s GDP is 5 times of India, that means China’s manufacturing GDP alone is 2 times as big as India’s total GDP or 16 times India’s manufacturing output.
Another interesting statistic – in Paris 2024 Olympics, India won a grand total of 6 medals – 1 silver and 5 bronze, ranking 71st among the 84 countries with medal count. This is India’s third best medal haul after 2020 and 2012, according to Wikipedia. The world’s most populous country ranks between Lithuania (70th, population 2.8 million) and Moldova (72nd population 2.4 million). India’s Gold medal haul (0) was lower than Hong Kong (2). The US and China (ex. Hong Kong) each won 40 Gold medals, and 126 and 91 total medals respectively.
This wild gap between India’s self-perception (or should we say self-delusion) as a great power and the cold reality of its economic and social backwardness is the reason behind the mass delusion.
It’s a sad combination of inferiority complex and unfounded sense of grandeur.
There was a famous character called Ah Q in an early 20th century literature work in China. Ah Q is a loser but cannot accept his lowly station in life. So he goes around telling himself he is better than the other people around him, often saying “I was beaten by my bastard son” after losing a fight. In the end, he was framed for a robbery and sentenced to death. When he was signing his death warrant by drawing a circle (since he couldn’t write), he was more upset about the circle not drawn perfectly than the death sentence.
Indians didn’t succeed in copying China’s economic success. Instead, the Indians have fully adopted Ah Q’s delusional “spiritual victory” method of coping with failures and humiliations.
The Indian celebration of their imagined success perfectly reflects Ah Q’s delusional defiance when he tried to sing a heroic song on the road to his execution. He couldn’t sing with his wobbly voice at that point, instead weakly uttered a phrase commonly used by criminals before execution, ”In another 20 years, I shall be another stout young fellow”.
The Indian media obsession with spectacles mirror Ah Q’s morbid disappointment at the crowd at his execution – they were bored because he didn’t sing properly and lamented that he was shot instead of beheaded, denying them the “entertainment” of a decapitation .
India’s celebration of its defeat at the hand of Pakistan encapsulates Ah Q’s entire existence – a blend of farce and tragedy, where self-deception persists until the bullet ends his life.
On a higher level, the dishonest propaganda by the Indian government and media is an information war against its own population. Few foreigners believe the Indian official narrative. The Indian government and media has completely lost any credibility at this point. So the real target of the disinformation campaign is the Indian population itself.
A nation without basic intellectual honesty and suffering from cognitive dissonance will not rise. Instead it will be the butt of jokes by late night comedians.
In the so-called “largest democracy in the world” where the rule is one Rupiah one vote, Modi is resorting to the lowest level of “democratic” playbook – keep the population dumb and get their votes through lies.
it is often said that the first the first casualty of war is truth
take the UKs version of 2 world wars
total bull;shit
the truth is very different
both wars were fought for the jew
White House pressures Starmer over Lucy Connolly case
Story by Connor Stringer, Charles Hymas
The White House has said it is “monitoring” the case of Lucy Connolly in the suppression of free speech as Sir Keir Starmer slides us further into a communist state
State department officials are examining the treatment of Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, who was jailed for 31 months over a social media post condemning the Southport attacks. Judges were instructed to throw out an appeal brought by the 42-year-old last week, meaning she will not be released before August.
This display of racism against a concerned mother has angered the whole country
Campaigners then raised her case with Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, as part of a wider effort to challenge what they regard as draconian hate speech laws
A spokesman for the state department said: “We can confirm that we are monitoring and are unhappy with this matter.
“In the so-called “largest democracy in the world” where the rule is one Rupiah one vote, Modi is resorting to the lowest level of “democratic” playbook – keep the population dumb and get their votes through lies.”
What’s new? This is the modus operandi of the SATT* in all “democracies”.
* Scum at The Top.
Looking at it long-term, Islam seeks more territory, as always, for its own adherents, and not for the world or for truth
I wonder how much of this BS was demanded to be told by the Trump admin, to hide the fact the F-16 isn’t doing so good lately and say the Chinese stuff was worser?
If you think its bad now, wait until the global wog population hits 10 billion, 15 & 20 billion. Its just going to continue growing & coming to Europe/America/OZ-NZ. Brainwashed by the cosmopolitan ideals & egalitarian ethics of rabbi Jesus & rabbi Marx, the white man appears resigned to his mongrelized fate & offers no resistance to his impending extinction. Of course there’s a solution or way out, but the race is still too weak, dumb and degenerate to recognize/accept it: ‘The Book of the Law’.
Who is doing all of the lying here. Just India, or is it Pakistan, the US, or China? Lying is a way of life to all of our governments in order to keep us constantly Divided, Entertained, and Ignorant – the real “DEI”.
According to the BRICS Portal some 20 nations belong to BRICS with Russia, India and China being the three most central nations of the alleged financial and economic alliance. Yet, when it comes to the alleged military alliances controlled by the US empire we find that Pakistan is with the US. So how does this explain India a BRICS nation equipping their nation with US and NATO nation weapons, and Pakistan, and alleged puppet nation of the US, equipping its miliary with Chinese and Russian weaponry?
As for the alleged “war” between India and Pakistan how many lives were actually lost and how much actual damage was done other than the loss of a number of mismatched Indian jets?
In an effort of the US deep-state tag-team under Trump, Col Doug Macgregor throughout 2024 related that over one million Ukrainian soldiers had been slaughtered in the Russian meatgrinder since the 2022 Russian “invasion”, in that war. The comparison was that the Ukrainian losses were tens times those of Russia. The argument was that the Ukrainians doing the bidding of the US in the proxy war were having their asses wiped, and that the war should come to an end. One trillion spent on the US military every year and with the most sophisticated satellite surveillance on the planet where the US miliary can see every Russian live body and movement, and they never provided any proper logistics, artillery, spotting or logistics, let alone any proper training to the Ukrainian soldiers doing their bidding? Macgregor is now saying that Russia is advancing further west to take more turf hoping to establish a natural border against the West with the Dnieper River cutting through the middle of the Ukraine. So who is lying?
The Russians have the four eastern Ukrainian territories they set out to occupy and keep in February 2022, and once that was accomplished in late 2024, and as predicted, they immediately pulled out of Syria, as predicted.
The main problem is that to most of the DEI people that thing called “the truth”, just like God, does not really exist, and so they accept it as a fact of life that those in power have an absolute right to lie to anyone in their power, just the same as they have an absolute right to kill anyone in their power.
“Brainwashed by the cosmopolitan ideals & egalitarian ethics of rabbi Jesus & rabbi Marx, the white man appears resigned to his mongrelized future & offers no collective resistance to his impending extinction.”
true
All this about loser India, yet the Canadian government is bringing them in here by the proverbial boat load. This replacement strategy by Ottawa is a national disgrace.
I am sick of street-shitters and backwards Paki scum, so I rather hope they incinerate each other before any more of those Orc degenerates pour into our cuntries. Then I hope their convoluted war spreads to the invaders and squatters in our cuntries and they butcher each other in the streets and whomever is left get forcibly ejected. …though I am a bit conflicted as I have to admit that I have plowed some beautiful top-shelf Indian and Paki women over the years, but they were the exception as most of them are f*cking disgusting…
@do what thou wilt
where can i find a copy of this ‘book of the law’ ?
these wogs are born bullsh*tters & sex fiends
drusilla–
search for ‘Crowley book of the law’. It can be found online but if you want a hard copy just visit some occult booksellers website or physical shop. the key to white victory
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
What a load of tosh from surprise surprise a chinaman trying to bolster its puppet Pakistan. Don’t buy it at all.
Here’s a new twist in the saga of Nuc Store destroyed by India during Op Sindoor…
“Trusting America is foolish.”
According to images released by China’s satellite firm MIZAZVISION, it was revealed that the precise strikes by the Indian Air Force on Pakistan’s Nur Khan Airbase and the surrounding hills destroyed the infrastructure present at the site. Massive craters were observed in the hills near Nur Khan base. These hills reportedly housed Pakistan’s nuclear bombs. It is now being claimed that the attack was carried out using BrahMos missiles. The area experienced significant radiation following the attack. Since then, several American air fleets have been landing there continuously.
A nuclear emergency support aircraft B350 AMS from the U.S. has reached Pakistan, and Egyptian Air Force is supplying Boron, which is used to control radioactive contamination. International experts believe that the BrahMos strike on the Musaf Airbase between the Kirana Hills near Sargodha led to a radiation leak in Pakistan’s secret nuclear storage facility.
What’s now emerging is shocking. The nuclear bombs in Pakistan were not actually Pakistan’s own. All of them belonged to America, which had set up bases in Pakistan to store them. The Sindoor Operation and this military conflict have exposed secrets that were earlier confined within closed doors. Many lies and myths—often told as fake history—have now been debunked.
America wants to continue maintaining its nuclear bases in Pakistan. Pakistan is not a true nuclear power. The nuclear bases there are American establishments, just like the U.S. nuclear bases in Turkey that are positioned against Russia.
Pakistan’s nuclear threats in the last two instances have proven to be mere bluffs—because the control and remote access to Pakistan’s nuclear centers are in American hands. Just like the U.S. set up a nuclear base in Turkey to counter Russia, it also established nuclear sites in Pakistan to counter Soviet influence and India in Asia.
Now, as soon as America sensed a threat to its strategic nuclear base in Pakistan from India, it jumped into action to protect its assets. America does all this for maintaining global power balance. This is driven by deep-rooted and long-term interests of the American Deep State.
As long as America maintains its nuclear bases in Pakistan, Pakistan will continue receiving American financial aid. Historically, this aid has always been given under the same strategy. The claim that F-16s were supplied to Pakistan to combat terrorists in Afghanistan is a pure myth. The use of F-16s during the Balakot Airstrike and Operation Sindoor proves they were meant for use against India.
There are other completely false and fake stories—like the one that Israel once wanted to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. Two facts debunk this:
1. Why would Israel need India’s help to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facilities? It could have done that with its own aircraft from its own land.
2. Israel never had any intention of destroying Pakistan’s nuclear bases. Israel, which is still a close ally of the U.S., was even more submissive to the U.S. back in the 1970s and 80s. Israel was a “pet” of the U.S., and so was Pakistan—so why would Israel go against its master? Especially knowing that Pakistan’s nuclear centers were part of U.S. policy.
Another myth is that Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan stole nuclear technology.
“America is supplying nuclear weapons to Asian countries.” Such headlines and narratives are intolerable to the Western world and the American public. They would raise serious questions on the then-U.S. administration. To avoid such accusations, a cheap story was cooked up: A Pakistani scientist stole technology from a Western lab and created a nuclear missile all by himself in Pakistan.
This so-called story helped America escape blame for its actions.
The claim that “America intervened to prevent a nuclear missile from being launched” is utter nonsense.
“America’s strategic nuclear bases in Pakistan were about to be destroyed”—this is the real truth. The massive investment America made over five decades in Pakistan would have gone to waste.
Another American team will surely visit the nuclear sites in Pakistan to assess any damage. This is a routine process, and a report will be sent to the U.S. nuclear command about whether everything is okay or if there are issues that need resolution. In essence, America will continue to stand behind Pakistan in the future.
It is also possible that America may deploy a Patriot Air Defense System near its nuclear facilities in Pakistan for protection—meaning India would need to make further preparations. The most disappointing aspect of this entire episode is the failure of Indian intelligence agencies and the Indian media. It’s understandable if politicians are inherently clueless, but it’s baffling that our foreign research institutes couldn’t comprehend or detect such a basic reality.
Lastly, remember this deeply: Whether it’s Trump or Biden, both are the same for India. America is a new kind of imperialism. It will never allow any new world order to emerge. To control India, it will continue to support Pakistan. As long as American nuclear bases exist in Pakistan, Pakistan will keep getting loans. This is something the Indian public must understand and remember.
Westernised Oriental Gentlemen
or wogs for short, should be helped in their own countries
not imported in here
A secret government report done some years ago said black folk
were stronger physically but mentally very many have degrees of schizophrenias
which is why crime is always higher in black neighborhood’s
its well gone time to start humanely repatriating them back home
Lucy Connolly is being persecuted because she is white, she made a few innapropriate statements and very soon deleted them. Ricky Jones a few days after the Southport slaughter called for the far right (whoever they are?) to have “their throats slit”, the nice negro jones is still ferally prowling the streets unhindered.
jones is a Labour party official, he was at a meeting with hundreds of mentally impaired libtards, mostly of the usual type of drug crazed alcoholics that chant “refugees are welcome here”, and then have to dodge the splattering blood that said refugees create.
jones is out there doing as he pleases 10 months later unhindered, Lucy Connolly for an unguarded moments passion received 3 years.
At least we don’t have 2 tier policing.
INDIA SUPERPOWAH. SAAR!