What??????????????????????

Never heard that one before. If true, it is proof that human arrogance and pretension know no bounds. But I already knew that. ;-)

There were similar foolish rumours in WWII that the Japanese Zeros which were generally massacring their opposition in the South Pacific in the first 6 months of the war were cheap imitations of a prewar American design (!) (the Hughes racer or whatever...) and that THIS was why it was superior to just about any frontline American fighter plane it encountered in the first year of the war... Duh! Uh...this is supposed to make some kind of sense???

Har de har har! Amazing, the crap people make up in order to keep fooling themselves that only they are the biggest and the best that ever was or ever could be...and everyone else is just playing catch-up.

The Japanese suffered from that kind of hubris too. In the end it always proves costly. It did for Rome. It did for Germany. It did for Japan. It did for Custer. It has done and shall again for the USA.

"Pride goeth before a fall." And in politics...creative lying on a grand scale usually goeth after said fall...except in the case of a total, absolute, and final defeat. Maybe even then.