1. You again tried to use ad hominems which are unnecessary and drag down the quality of the forum.
Try to address the arguments and ideas rather than the person or individual.
2. You again made unnecessary detours on unrelated topics and came up with useless conclusions.
This thread is about airpower, not about wishful thinking of some CCP bot.
Moreover, rather than some zombie bot in CCP territory, if you like what "professional" sounding think tanks believe, then here's one.
Map the distribution of power across 27 countries in the Asia-Pacific with @LowyInstitute Asia Power Index
power.lowyinstitute.org
An Aussie think tank.
I am not so easily impressed by "professional" sounding/appearing names as I care more about substance than looks or appearances.
Since the think tank is Aussie, it's fair to say they overrate Aussie national power. Let us exclude Australia from that discussion.
According to their (inaccurate but far more reliable than some CCP-zombie-bot) estimate, these are the most powerful countries of Asia-Pacific region. I have excluded Australia from the list because an Australian think tank is likely to be biased in its favour.
RANK SCORE TREND COUNTRY / TERRITORY
As much as you would like to live in denial, those in the
business of studying elements of national power estimate tiny Singapore as ASEAN's most powerful.
Not very flattering for your country, I am afraid.
Also, other smaller countries in ASEAN such as Thailand and Malaysia are said to be more powerful than yours.
Vietnam trails Indonesia but only marginally.
There is no reason to believe Lowy Institute, or
any other think tank is the sole arbiter of truth or justice. And definitely not on an issue that is so hard to quantify objectively.
But there is no reason whatsoever to believe Indonesia is the regional big wig, unlike what you would have many members here believe.
Singapore is essentially an American protectorate today, as you rightly explained. They've also cozied up with India, another archenemy of Muslims worldwide. As they have done with Zionist regime/Israel.
Understandably, their evil nature and actions should be revealed to the world. No doubt about that, not one bit.
Still, some undeniable facts can not be changed by wishful thinking.
That Singapore maintains, according to this list, a considerably more powerful air force than any other ASEAN country, also a more powerful navy than any other ASEAN country, and that it does not expand its military might further,
visibly, in order not to spark an arms race in the region given the already very significant and
visible lead.
Within the wider "Muslim world", it is
even harder to see Indonesia as a leader of any sorts. Not when it lacks in financial power, it lacks any definitively attractive ideology, when it lacks soft power, and most importantly, when it lacks any considerable amount of hard power or scientific and technological lead over
all other countries in its bloc - the "Muslim world".
3. You should not continue on this path of emotional outbursts and irrelevant detours replete with irrelevant facts and inconsistent logic and argumentation.
No need for any ad hominems.
4. You are free, to explain in great details, how Indonesian air power, naval power, technological marvels, scientific advancements, space programme, nuclear programme lead either the ASEAN region, or the wider "Muslim world", or both.
