I agree and disagree. Agree with neighbourly aspect. Disagree that the membership should continue for the purpose of a War. War may not happen ever. And I hope that it does not.
Thanks for few sane words.
@jamahir
✌Am drawing a Cold War parallel even though it is not entirely applicable in the case of our nations. The USA, NATO, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact were Cold War adversaries willing to nuke each other into oblivion. Yet a people to people dialogue was maintained. There was no internet or social media in those days but short wave radio with mail in audio or phone in messages, licensed Ham Radio operators, pen friends clubs, Youth exchange programs, helped to keep the dialogue going. There was the Bolshoi ballet touring the USA and the New York Philharmonic playing in St.Petersburg. Yuri Gagarin the first astronaut visited London also as did Neil Armstrong visit Moscow.
There was a reason for that interaction. The Soviet Union was majority Russian, with a European culture, and so the people's of Europe and North America could identify with them. There was no religious hatred or feeling of revenge. The differences were ideological based on perceptions of a socio-economic world order and wealth sharing. There was no territorial dispute. There
was room for debate and dialogue.
Which is why the Soviet Union worked with the USA on eradication of small pox.
Arial skirmishes aside the Soviet Union, and the USA never fought a full fledged war.
Those factors are not entirely valid within the India Pakistan context. We have drifted so far apart that our peoples hardly know each other. There is no prospect of relations getting better. There is nothing the sane amongst us can do to stem the madness gripping the region . The only forums we can interact on are defence forums like these where we will either only discuss the tools of war, or hurl insults at each other. The only thing the civil and informed amongst both sides can do, is to spell out our positions.
I recently posted a thread which showed the effects of a nuclear strike and how we should prepare for it ( see link below). During the Cold War this was a common topic for discussions amongst the peoples of the opposing countries. The threat was real. As civilians there was nothing they could do to prevent a nuclear war but they could prepare for it. Both sides would contribute to the discussions with politeness and concern.
My thread did not have a single post from an Indian guest.
So that is the level of dialogue. I hope there is no war too.
The case for preparations for surviving a nuclear attack. "It will never happen" is not a good answer to "What if...? " It can happen, and likely will. Pakistan is in extreme danger of a preemptive nuclear strike. The dooms day clock from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists lists Pakistan as one...
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