The governments of India and Pakistan pulled back from the brink over Kashmir because neither can afford a full-scale war. Bellicose rhetoric and a climate of strident nationalism have helped both governments as they face problems on the domestic front.
Well in India there are state elections coming up. PM Modi said no party should make it a political issue and he himself is on rallies using it as his masterstroke.
All around the world we are dying so a few get richer. We all need to stand up for ourselves and stop hating our neighbors. They aren’t the enemy.
Yeah these gooners are going to keep edging until they initiate the extermination of the human race. Isn’t the world great.
So what are the Indians supposed to do? Take it lying down? Get bombed out of no where because some pakistani general felt a little bit insecure?
Pakistan’s generals would sell their nukes to save themselves before they ever used them lol.
Neither country’s leaders are interested in an actual war. Modi just wanted PR rhetoric for his party which is why this was almost a 1:1 of 2019. Munir just wanted PR rhetoric for the army running the country and an IMF loan to use on more land development schemes.
Real shit way to get PR rhetoric by murdering tourists. And not like Modi could do anything other than what he did. What was he going to do? More talks like the last 30 years?
It wasn’t a 1:1, a lot more ballistic missiles and trashed air bases were involved this time around.
Lol Modi let this play out just like he did for 2019, it’s even likely that he induced the attack himself, whether through Pakistan or directly. Imran Khan even predicted there’d be another Pulwama in 5 years, and he was right.
The wave of drones and ballistic missiles did practically minimal damage to both sides, even Brahmos took a slew of missiles to get past point defense. Pakistan army did jack during their return fire operation.
The only real damage was the aircraft in the air. I think Modi had this planned out with Munir as a stunt, but he wasn’t expecting PAF to function autonomously. He seemed pretty pissed about the ceasefire probably because he wasn’t expecting to lose several jets.*
Internationally, everyone is reporting on the initial air fight, but in Pakistan its Munir’s face plastered on every wall and tv channel, and in India it’s Modi’s.
*I’m not the only one who shares this idea BTW, several analysts have claimed that the IAF was caught quite off guard because they were under the assumption PAF wouldn’t engage with BVRs across the border. They think it was a political failure in planning the operation, and not the lack of capabilities of pilots and/or aircraft (as much as I like to think it is lol).
