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    1 year ago

    Khan got couped by the US for leaning toward non-alignment and trade with Russia. Will the US sponsored coup regime get couped themselves for a weapons deal with China?

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          You might want to read this article. Sadly, some of the more crucial points are missing, which are on the r/pakistan subreddit. I’ll add them below if I can find them.

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            I don’t see anything in there which points to Khan being fascist. I agree that he’s no saint, but was a whole lot better than the US-backed military regimes Pakistan has now and has often had going all the way back to independence.

            Taking control of the countries’ institutions and making trade deals that benefit the people of the countries involved rather than western capitalists is the first step towards national liberation, and that’s what I understand Khan tried to do, even if he was at times hamfisted about it. That’s also why he ended up getting couped and now faces trumped up charges.

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            That article is non-materialist and was a pain to read as it was super bare In Information.

            Nowhere in the article is an analysis why Khan is a fascist. The most interesting part was a one liner allegation that he got support form the wealthy but it wasn’t expanded on. At the very end of this drivel the spiciest thing was that he seems to be misogynist (does that make him a fascist?)

            And this one made him looked based:

            Khan’s surging popularity is not all good news. He wants to rule with an iron fist and fantasises about a China-style political system. As prime minister, during a state visit to Beijing he said that in “western democracies, it is difficult to bring change as you are bound by rules and regulations. Democracies of today plan only for the next five years. The Chinese Communist Party achieved better without democracy.”

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    Following the recent war games where, according to Pakistan, the Chinese fighters comprehensively outperformed the F-16, looks like Pakistan is investing more heavily in Chinese aircraft.

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      Nice they finally managed to outperform and old as fuck American jet fighter

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        No joke, 50th anniversary of the first F16 flight is coming up very soon.

        Granted the guts of that plane have been upgraded over and over, but still.

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        leave it up to lemmitors to think all F-16 planes were all made in 1978 and haven’t gone through decades of upgrades

        china will probably not have to worry about outperforming the F-35 considering how much of an unreliable piece of shit it is

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      they really out performance it, or it’s just to justify the the jet bought

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        It’s justifying their purchase of the Next-generation Chinese jet, so I’ll let you decide.

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    Curious to see whether they are able to produce engines in sufficiently large volumes, and, which engines these exports will receive.

    Allegedly, the WS-19 entered production earlier this year, but presumably, those are all destined for domestic J-31/35 production, and exports will continue to use the WS-13E.

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    Yeah I wanna see how the broke army can afford stealth fighters when they literally ditched China’s CPEC and shot their previous government just to get the chance to beg the USA for IMF loans.

    PAF got J10Cs because the USA is never gonna sell Pakistan F-16s ever again. China doesn’t even give them the domestic versions of their Fox 3s, they won’t just hand out stealth fighters for free after getting blown off by a COAS who only answers to american dollars.