SS - Really and over what?
The 2B is a 40kft/Mach 1.2/5.5 g jet. If you have to check out a Global Express you watch as it blows past above you. No AIM-9 so in a QRA your options are to use lethal force from min range or to close to where weapons may be unusable. No gun, nothing for CAS except an LGB.
Rafale today does cruise missile carriage. Six PGMs on six DMPIs. LOROP. Antiship. 6+ AAMs, including Meteor by the time 3F arrives. ESM. Nuclear strike, even. And the F-35 is "the very best multirole aircraft available today in the western world"?
My glass may be half empty but it's not full of what some people are drinking.