I don't think you understand, this makes you look worse.
What's the 'Karachi affair'?
Investigations into the so-called "Karachi affair" began after 11 French engineers were killed in a Karachi bombing in 2002.
Pakistani authorities blamed Islamist militants, but there were suspicions that the car bombing, which wrecked a bus, was an act of revenge after then-French President Jacques Chirac ordered the payments of secret arms deal commissions to stop.
Mr Balladur is alleged to have earlier approved payment of the commissions to intermediaries in the sale of three submarines to Pakistan, and that from them so-called "retro-commissions" came back to France to fund his 1995 presidential bid.
The kickbacks are estimated to have cost 13m francs, or almost €2m.
Mr Sarkozy has faced legal scrutiny over the Karachi affair. He has denied any connection to the deal.
A lawyer representing the victims of the deadly Karachi bombing praised the French court's decision on Monday.
Olivier Morice said that "if the families had not lodged a complaint, there would not have been this judgment", adding that families were now waiting for the trial of Mr Balladur and Mr Léotard.
Mr Balladur was the French prime minister from 1993 to 1995. Both he and Mr Léotard were charged in May 2017 with "complicity in misuse of corporate assets and concealment" over the Pakistan deal.
The gravy train of bribery stopped which led to pakistan blowing up 11 french technicians. Otherwise, France had no problems selling pakistan military equipment. So, India-France partnership just a mercantile relationship. Now the use of this relationship is nose-diving as India-US relations are soaring new heights. India should be pragmatic and dump this careful balancing act.
US-India trade: 118 billion
View attachment 29108View attachment 29109
Can you find France in that list? No? So France is not even the 25th largest trade partner for India? Italy,UK,Germany have more trade with india.
So what is India-France trade?
View attachment 29110
source:
www.eoiparis.gov.in
Paltry 12 billion euros - as i said hollow relationship like russia, to be thrown under the bus now as India-US relationship have improved. US is the actual global power here that can offer "the deal of the century" as it did to China once (after sino-soviet split). Anyone who says otherwise is a sentimental fool who doesn't wishes india to rise. We should take that deal and industrialise like china did. Rest is noise. If that requires buying american jets then so be it. Cold blooded pragmatism like china is what we need right now.
France (like Russia) is just a tool to be used and thrown.
If we want to come even close to this

reality, we need to whole-heartedly embrace US like China did once. Sentimentality has no place here.
View attachment 29111