Dude, before feb26 Pak got away with lots of stuff on militancy front using nuclear escalation bogey to tie up India at LOC/border. Twice India brought its army to border and went back disappointed. 26Feb changed all that.
Then why are your CDS and Army Chief still lamenting about terrorists about to be launched into IOK? What's changed, as per their own admission? Apparently nothing.
No other time had any nuclear power aerial directly bombed another nuclear power. Pak’s nuke bluff effectively call that day.
Actually the only thing that was proven that Pakistan had raised its conventional deterrence to the point, where it can clearly re-establish status-quo, without resorting to nuclear warfare. What in fact came as a surprise to Nato, United States and just about the entire region, was Indian response of resorting to a sub-conventional response, post their loss of aerial deterrence to Pakistan. This clearly showed the India's lost its conventional edge to Pakistan on Feb 27th and had to resort to a threat of surface-to-surface missile strikes. The only party here whose bluff got called was India, it was found wanting, across the board.
Pulwama was a gift to Modi. Without Pulwama Modi would not have got such a massive majority. Aug5 could not have happened without this massive majority. So thanks to JeM for that.
Pulwama was nothing but an inside response to whatever is happening in Kashmir, I would venture as far as to suggest that it was played out to the gallery and was supposed to give Modi a chance at winning the elections. It's not entirely Pakistan's fault that Indian voter base is entirely gullible to right wing pundits and anti-Pakistan bigotry. It's a reality that we've to live with.
Off course 27Feb is disappointing for India. IAF losing an aircraft was not something that can’t happen in a skirmish but IAF not exacting a cost to PAF is. Why they were so unprepared knowing very well Pak will retaliate is a mystery.
It's not a mystery, the reason is as simple as your reaction to this entire ordeal. Your entire generation has been raised on a drip feed of caricatures of Pakistanis, where they are non-professionals, bottom-feeders, with no sense of warfare. Where these long-bearded nincompoops will simply lay over and play dead, while the victorious Indian forces will vanquish them. This is how an Indian mind works. Which is entirely fine. Having a supremacist mindset only means you will keep making mistakes. =)
Yes India annexed Kashmir on Aug5 and not before. 370 meant Kashmir had its own constitution and flag. Not anymore.
Kashmir was physically annexed 70 years ago. It had million+ soldiers stationed in the valley, for decades. Just saying that Kashmir was somehow operating on its own, is just something that existed on paper. It'd nothing to do with reality.
Pak army not upping the ante after Aug5 is cowardly but sensible at the end. Economically weak Pak entering into full conflict with India risked balkanisation of Pak.
Pakistan actually went in fully knowing what it was going for. If IAF strike had killed any personnel on our end, it'd have been responded to in kind, that it did not, it got responded to the way it was. And the response was entire full-spectrum across multiple AORs on the LOC and naval.
LOL! @ balkanisation of Pakistan. As I said, I love the fact that Bollywood has your entire generation hooked on to this drip-feed of pipedreams. All it means is that whenever a response comes from Pakistan, you guys will lose your shit, as you did post-Abhinandan's arrest. =)
