They also somehow have the audacity to suggest that they have a power parity in that tweet, like lol sure dude, lying to your own people about that is actually helping us as well..
I would bet a non-zero number of their decisionmakers are in fact not lying at all. They actually believe their own statements because they are deluded into believing it is still 1985, where at least a good portion of the drivel they spew today would have held *some* weight back then, and the PLA was driving ZTZ-59s and flying J-7s in frontline units. For them, apparently the India of today is not the India of 1962 (their own quote), but China has strangely remained frozen for the past half-century or so. Rather than being similar to the Armenians (with military leaders similarly believing it is still 1993), I'd go as far as to say they resemble some of the hardliners of Iraq in 1990, i.e. having the belief that "We're strong, powerful, and can do whatever the hell we want". That is to say, it is a far more dangerous mindset (at least for them) than that of the Armenians, because from what we have continuously observed in previous years, they are confident to keep on *initiating* such engagements rather than just staying on the disputed territory that they hold (or used to hold before this year). Simply kicking them off some hills is not enough for them to change their outdated beliefs, nor will losing 20 soldiers do the job. Pakistan's similar lesson to them last year had no effect because, to no one's surprise, they tried another similar stunt this year with Pakistan also. They need to understand the precise degree of how much they are outmatched against the PLA in case a real war breaks out. If they can't learn the lesson the easy way with 0 casualties, then the hard way is to learn the lesson practically and take 10000 casualties. Until that happens, these sorts of 'flashpoints' will continue on even after we all die of old age.
E: Wording error
