This Rafale saga reminds me of a story long back told to me by one of my friends from corporate world.
Once upon a time, some village elders from a village in Haryana decided that they need to increase the milk yield of their cows. Someone suggested them to import a Bull from scandinavian country so that they could get a shanker breed cows with the milk yield of their cows. A delegation went to one such country and they shortlisted a very good looking tall big bull. But the owners of that Bull refused to let go off this bull and asked this delegation to look at other bulls. Seeing their reluctance to let go of this bull, these villagers from Haryana Village insisted on that bull only. Finally they paid a very big price for this bull and with lot of fanfare brought it to their village. After 2-3 days they let this bull among their cows. Now Desi cows finding a European bull among themselves started giving more attention to this bull. AND this bull will excite desi cows by lickng them and rubbing its body with them but would not mate. It went on for few days. Now the cows which got excited and left high and dry went ahead and mated with local bulls.
The angry villagers went back to that country and asked their money back as this bull was not doing what it was supposed to do. Do you know what this scandinavian country told these villagers from Haryana, " We told you not to take it and select other bulls, but you insisted on him. This bull is like a financial advisor who will manipulate you to invest but will never ever himself invest. We used this bull to only excite our cows but for actual job we had other bulls and thats why we asked you to take other bulls."
Rafale is like that bull, it excites but the job is done by the real Bull called SU-30MKI. And it has been proven in Op Sindoor. French airforce is more of an ornamental airforce and less of an actual operational Airforce capable of fighting wars.