I mean Israel has done this, and also failed to do it one time:

On 10th October, 2001, Israelis attempted to bomb the Mexican Legislative Assembly and blame it on Pakistan. They had false Pakistani passports but were caught.

More likely though this is not the case as full false flags happen when something much larger is at stake. Israel is sitting decently comfortably right now, even with Europe suddenly switching sides (which is more likely to do with Trump’s crappy foreign policy).

There’s always a higher chance of intentional neglect, like Israel’s “failure” to spot Hamas’s original invasion plans because they wanted a reason for escalation. It’s entirely possible they were aware of a threat but chose not to act.

Then again with how fast the media is all over this, who knows.

I remember someone here made a detailed list of how lots of the early linux FOSS stuff was essentially ripoff of unix software lol. I think XFCE was originally a knockoff of CDE or something with XForms. Now it’s the de facto performance DE and the default on Kali.

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I just wanna know if there was anything interesting on recent events like what went down with the India-Pakistan BVR fight and subsequent ceasfire.

U.S. president George W. Bush ducking a thrown shoe while Iraq prime minister Nouri al-Maliki attempts to parry it

Some Wikipedia contributer out there is still laughing at his use of the word parry lol

It’s like you pull every bad take from Reddit and dial it to 10x

Said the lemm.ee user lmao

Lol Modi let this play out just like he did for 2019, it’s even likely that he induced the attack himself, whether through Pakistan or directly. Imran Khan even predicted there’d be another Pulwama in 5 years, and he was right.

The wave of drones and ballistic missiles did practically minimal damage to both sides, even Brahmos took a slew of missiles to get past point defense. Pakistan army did jack during their return fire operation.

The only real damage was the aircraft in the air. I think Modi had this planned out with Munir as a stunt, but he wasn’t expecting PAF to function autonomously. He seemed pretty pissed about the ceasefire probably because he wasn’t expecting to lose several jets.*

Internationally, everyone is reporting on the initial air fight, but in Pakistan its Munir’s face plastered on every wall and tv channel, and in India it’s Modi’s.

*I’m not the only one who shares this idea BTW, several analysts have claimed that the IAF was caught quite off guard because they were under the assumption PAF wouldn’t engage with BVRs across the border. They think it was a political failure in planning the operation, and not the lack of capabilities of pilots and/or aircraft (as much as I like to think it is lol).

I always love the cognitive dissonance people have seeing others hope that a man directly responsible for a metric ton of civilian deaths, succumbing to a painful death, is not ethically correct.

I mean people seem to have zero issue with United Healthcare. Exorbitant Healthcare costs is the equivalent of death, but literally bombing hospitals and refugee camps isn’t?

Not to mention that he’ll be receiving the latest and greatest in medical aid anyway, so there’s a fair chance he’ll survive. A lot of geriatric asshat world leaders contracted covid and still lived.

I can’t even tell if this is DNC shilling because several people have implied they would treat Trump the same. Wth kind of moral compass are yall following lol?

Pakistan’s generals would sell their nukes to save themselves before they ever used them lol.

Neither country’s leaders are interested in an actual war. Modi just wanted PR rhetoric for his party which is why this was almost a 1:1 of 2019. Munir just wanted PR rhetoric for the army running the country and an IMF loan to use on more land development schemes.

Thankfully, we have better instances like world, ml, etc that don’t moderate content that states the obvious lol.

Imaging simping for the poorly written speech laws of any country in the age of the internet where you can host your own instance on a cheapo VPS in whatever region you like.

Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol

He made an optional upgrade called the M2 lol

Actually I think he was intentionally straying to have any remaining coyotes track him away from the herd. He waited it out before returning.

So basically just knockoff reddit then?

Hey I came back to this after we didn’t see Tejas or F-16s lol.

Rafales didn’t seem to like the J-10s though ;)

Dumbass it’s Pakistan that uses Chinese weapons not India. Not only that but they claim to have shot down 5 IAF aircraft with 3 confirmed via videos and pictures on the ground.

Even if you didn’t want to sepnd the 5 seconds reading the summary, it has been well known that China and India are economic enemies of each other. India gets most of its stuff from Russia because China wouldn’t sell to them in a million years.

Moreover its a big deal because they shot down at least one Rafale which is fairly well established NATO/western fighter, which showcases Chinese tech isn’t coming slow.

The operation is over now, if you want the latest details, I begrudgingly suggest following the posts on r/Pakistan because there’s barely a Pakistani community on lemmy.

Still active drones crossing the border, a ton of them shot down with lots of pictures and videos. Several videos of India and Pakistan’s airbases getting targeted and/or hit by missiles.

India lost 3 jets already during their attack, but they seem to be penetrating Pakistan’s airspace well with drones and at the very least reaching close to critical targets.

There’s also a very unconfirmed report of a pilot captured due to a video of what appears to be a parachute, but neither India nor Pakistan has made claims of any shot down jets today.

Dawg that’s how BVR fights work.

It’s still a dogfight, you don’t just sit there and let the missile do all the work.

Even before the crazy new range of China’s PL-15, PAF was using AIM-120s and shot down a MiG-21 5 years ago.

Every airforce hides their tactics but you can open any DCS video using BVR missiles to see how difficult it can get

Fun stuff

It’s always funny seeing these silicon valley startups have essentially zero retained employees and engineers except the CEO.

All money machines built on the backs of long gone engineers that only exist because they’ve cornered their share of the oligopoly market.