Will they whine, spin, or escalate?
The Kashmir conflict 2025.
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Bad formulation on my part. I meant without 5th gen it feel like 1990s tactics and not 2025.
I don't think nuclear war between these two will be the end of the planet. Neither of them have H bombs.
US tested many hundreds of nukes in Nevada and on those Pacific islands. The Earth is still here.
Success depends on being judicious about which opportunities are worth the costs. This one isn’t. Chasing low reward opportunities are how you waste yourself on stupid prizes. It’s not like supporting Pakistan in this skirmish makes India go away. They have nukes so you’re not changing their domestic politics and convincing them to be even more committed to beefing with China long term does China’s long term strategic positions no favors. Smart geopolitics and strategy is not about shortsighted oneupsmanship contests.
Pakistan has a few for many decades. The Dassault D-20. Never heard much about it except that PAF uses it for EW.
It's almost impossible to destroy an ideology by bombing it. Seemingly, the best that can be done is to contain the damage and hope changing global conditions (decline of Western financial/soft power) gives space for development aid from third parties (whether it's China or Russia or whatever) to influence India for the better.
I think/hope we're kind of seeing that now in the Middle East with Iran and Saudi Arabia (and the opposite in Syria).
They will deny all strikes and tell media that everything has been intercepted. We'll have to wait for satellite imagery.
It's a risk. Everybody hopes for a short war, the Nazis thought operation Barbarossa would be over by Christmas. Putin's initial goal in Ukraine was to force a quick negotiated settlement in Istanbul 2022, but as we see that never happened and instead the US and NATO is drawn into a long proxy war with Russia.
India might be analogous to Russia and Pakistan to Ukraine in that one's a lot bigger than the other, so all things equal, I think India has the edge when it comes to a long war.
But that's just my uneducated opinion.
I'm not specifically targeting your post, but how can any of the claims accompanying that video be substantiated?
- can we verify that was taken in the city/location claimed
- can we verify there is a "high level Indian Army installation" there at all
- if there was such an installation, how do we know it was "destroyed" (as opposed to damaged, or even having a missile/weapon miss the target and hit nearby)
Given it seems Pakistan has launched some sort of operation/retaliation, I think we should be careful about boosting unverified claims again because there's going to be lots of misinformation out there (deliberate and unintentional)