Escalating India-Pakistan conflict

[AGinAg (37)]

They keep escalating. India have now launched missiles against Pakistan.

BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyneele13qt
India says it has launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir - latest - BBC News

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Can they NOT

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Pakistan have said they'll respond.

It's ok guys, it's just between two nuclear nations.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Oh not Vance AGAIN

 

[octophone]

I wonder what precedent Modi is considering in terms of just bombing a 'disputed territory' flat without international repercussions?

 

[Jark]

for god's sake. not another one

 

[octophone]

 

[big ron]

This is fairly normal for these two countries though, they have a little row and then it simmers down again.

 

[octophone]

Modi isn't the most stable of leaders tho'. Trumpian levels of self-importance.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

This is fairly normal for these two countries though, they have a little row and then it simmers down again.

It's not new, but it's a flare-up in a dangerous world.

 

[K.C.]

These attacks are more serious than the usual tit-for-tat I think. Mainly because they're part of a much larger escalation between the two in the last decade. Treaties have been ditched and militarization has increased.

Modi has definitely lead with a heavy handed response but the Pakistanis haven't done anything to help either. They've been just as happy perpetuating the status quo of conflict in Kashmir. They've supported Indian-Kashmiri separatists and their national intelligence agency is in bed with Kashmiri terrorists (LeT). So I don't see this conflict waning anytime soon.

 

[Eddie]

Modi isn't the most stable of leaders tho'. Trumpian levels of self-importance.

I’m no huge fan but this statement is RIDICULOUS. He’s nothing like Trump!

 

[old spice]

Hmm. I'm no expert on Indian politics, but from what I understand Modi's a social media-savvy, right-wing, self-styled 'strongman', and as prone to fanning the flames of religious fundamentalism and ethnonationalism in order to suppress minority groups as he is to curbing press freedoms and, by extension, democratic values. He may be more successful at portraying himself as a functional statesman than Trump, but I don't consider the comparison wildly out of place? Every single progressive Indian I know actively abhors the guy, which tells me something.

Also, as much as I'm actually inclined to believe that Pakistan were somehow involved in Pahalgam, launching missiles over the border without any concrete proof that they did so (correct me if I've missed some intel) is just fucking wild. And sadly emblematic of the jingoistic, trigger-happy, bullshit world we currently live in.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Still escalating... they're accusing each other of bombing each others military bases.