I'm not as informed on all this as I'd like to be (yes, I read the linked article) but my impression has been that both India and Pakistan have pretty dubious claims to anyone's affection
I also get the sense favoritism towards India is almost entirely about being on the winning side
For now, I feel it is mostly because of rivalry with China, Pakistan is an ally of China whereas India is at odds, thus the bias. To be honest, I find it immature that US intelligencia is avoiding the facts of what happened just because Trump is saying that he brokered the peace deal.
Also-India has yet to apprehend the terrorists who were involved in the terror attack. It was not a retaliatory strike, it was a Bully's strike on a neighbour's, just because it thought it could get away with it.
I don’t think it’s as simple as economics, although economic potential clearly matters. In the Cold War, the issue was which country was thought to be aligned with which alliance. Pakistan in the 70s aligned with Islamist extremists, the result being perpetual upheaval. India then seemed safer.
Lol, are you for real. The alliance was with the US, and US directed Pakistan to create those jihadist to help against soviets. I am for sure thankful that US has left the region.
Aren’t you glad we have Trump as president so he can broker peace deals like this? We are all so glad he is our president now and not Kamala. Trump-undefeated against 2 presidential women candidates!
I'm one of the people who thinks that neither side has any incentive to engage in a full-scale war, and has observed that they have skirmishes like this every few years.
TLDR - US supported Pakistan to keep the Soviet/Communist presence from spreading in Cold War. Once war ended, US support declined. Now, China "allegedly" provided nukes to Pakistan to counter Indian influence in SE Asia. US/Russia can now support India as a counter to China/Pakistan.
For the last 20 years, I’ve been teaching my world history class telling my community college students, not fancy ivie kids, that the most likely nuclear war they’ll see in their lifetime is India versus Pakistan started over Kashmir
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I also get the sense favoritism towards India is almost entirely about being on the winning side
There's your why.
"ok got it...now what..."
(turning blue)
"..ack....matt?"
#smut
https://youtu.be/iaHDBL7dVgs?si=hKre6x8Ous_rIpmQ
For the last 20 years, I’ve been teaching my world history class telling my community college students, not fancy ivie kids, that the most likely nuclear war they’ll see in their lifetime is India versus Pakistan started over Kashmir
100m dead in 10 min.