Thread by @powerofyogesh

Thread!

A Faujji who does not wish to be named has written the following:

"The bottom line is that propaganda which governments spread for national consumption and for election results will sooner than later come back to bite the country in its nether parts.

Read on.
What has happened in East Ladakh is the beginning of the death by a thousand cuts. 

I'll try to explain here how the tactical defeat in Galwan's been turned into a strategic defeat.

Military PsyOps & propaganda is an essential part of any armed-forces' narrative.

It has its benefits in that it unsettles the enemy. 

However, this propaganda is not for self-consumption. Because that only leads to disaster. 

And that is what we have been doing in the last few years.

China has been closely watching the shenanigans of the Indian leadership for quite some time now. 

And what it has seen has left it happily perplexed.

It saw a non-incident like 'surgical strike,' something which was commonplace across the LOC propped up by a pliant media at the behest of the @narendramodi govt. 

It saw how no one asked critical questions on who died in that attack & what tactical goal was achieved.

Then came the #BalakotStrike.

It saw how the Indian military failed to hit the objective but the local media still celebrated the non event as if something fantastic had taken place.

In the face of undeniable evidence to the contrary, the political leadership, and sadly, but not surprisingly, the military leadership too, insisted they hit the target & achieved their objective.

China saw how no one raised the obvious questions domestically and how Indians ended up celebrating what was essentially a major fuck-up.  

In the days to come, the @IndianAirforce lost the dogfight over Kashmir.

It lost a plane, one of its pilots was captured and it managed to down its own helicopter. 

The media presented it as a tactical AND, mother-of-all-horrors, a strategic win, once again in the face of undeniable evidence that suggested otherwise.

While we were dancing, China realised the primary focus of the @narendramodi govt is headline management for consumption of domestic audience, & that the Armed Forces with some very incompetent people at the very top was kowtowing to the narrative spun by politicians.

It is here that China saw the opportunity. 

China knew that it can escalate the situation in Ladakh and get away with it. 

It also knew that while the pressure on the govt in New Delhi would be immense to retaliate—especially so because it made its domestic audience believe...

...that it is capable of doing so, even if it is not—that factor will be mitigated by the habit of the Indian political and military leadership to spin every tactical defeat into a victory for the consumption of the domestic audience. 
And that's exactly what has happened.

While 20 of ours were killed, we managed to tell our domestic audience that we killed more. 

That's NOT what happened!

The sheer number of ours who were captured by them proves that we were pummelled. 

Otherwise, you would've captured theirs, not they yours.

China correctly guessed that New Delhi will manage the headlines, and sat back quietly. 

Now, as things stand, we have lost territory. 

We will never be able to regain those lost territories.

Indians have gobbled up their government  propaganda hook, line and sinker that somehow we have won. 

That's what China wanted. 

It will not even actively refute it. 

What's the point?

It will keep taking territories piecemeal every few months.

And every few months,  our masters will spin every loss as a victory and sell it successfully to us. 

All the while the heightened tension at the border will keep draining the Indian Armed Forces AND India financially.

This death by a thousand cuts will continue till we will have no option left but to fire the first bullet. 

They are waiting for us to do so.

The unilateral abrogation of Article 370 means that China will not recognise any border pact be it the one signed in 1993 or the ones done earlier.

It has also successfully called out the duplicity of the mandarins in Delhi who thought that they were hoodwinking China by talking about "Wuhan Spirit" on the one hand and actively working to become a member of the anti-China Quad Alliance on the other.

Tweedledum @narendramodi
& Tweedledee @AmitShah
think they are the only clever people on Earth. 

I see people abusing the political leadership for this defeat. 

But what about the military leadership? 

Weren't they eager to toe the political line?

Some might even say, way too eager!

Agreed Sanghis at the helm have a very mythical and exaggerated idea of our power and its projection, but shouldn't the military leadership have told them that we have a tactical parity only with Pakistan....

...and that we might lose a plane or the pilot or both if we get too gung-ho and ignore cold calculations. 

But they didn't. 

When the @narendramodi made that comical claim about taking benefit of  clouds to dodge enemy radar, we laughed it off.

But the world, and the Chinese, saw how a serving Vice Air Marshall came on record to justify such a gaffe. 

The Chinese thus correctly identified this weakness and exploited it. 

And they will further do so in the days to come!!!

-A Faujji