The 1971 India-Pakistan Air War is somewhat like the First Sino-Japanese War during the late Qing Dynasty! At that time, Western powers in Europe and America wanted to support an agent in East Asia to counter the eastward expansion of Russia. Originally, the Western countries planned to support the Qing Dynasty, but they did not expect that the Qing Dynasty could not even defeat Japan. Therefore, after the war, Japan received various forms of support, while the Qing Dynasty fell into a state of decline and eventually collapsed without ever winning a single battle.
Therefore, in the 1971 air war, Pakistan was like Japan back then, and India was like the Qing Dynasty.
So today, India has been looked down upon and sanctioned by various Western countries. At first, it was not so obvious, but as time went on, people began to see how much India was being looked down upon, which made them believe that the defeat in a war is really extremely dangerous for India.
That's why on August 9th, India claimed that its air force had shot down five Pakistani aircraft and one early warning aircraft. It took more than three months before this claim was announced. The reason is that India could no longer withstand external pressure and quickly fabricated a victory to deceive Western countries and its allies; otherwise, India would not have been able to get through. Whether or not anyone believed it is another matter, but India itself believed it!
The current situation shows that the negative consequences of the India-Pakistan air war are far greater than we imagined. We originally thought that this war would pass and be forgotten, and that we could start over again. However, we did not expect that the reaction from Western countries would be so long, taking more than three months before they remembered how to sanction and suppress India. So in this world, you cannot afford to lose a war. Once you lose, the consequences can be extremely severe.
The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War directly plunged the Qing Dynasty into a deep abyss, from which it could not recover. Although India's losses were not large, its international reputation has been completely lost, and it is constantly belittled and mocked by the United States, yet India cannot respond. This is the tragic outcome of India in the India-Pakistan War. India may end up worse off than the Qing Dynasty after the First Sino-Japanese War.
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