VCheng
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Essentially the tussle between India and Pakistan is about fighting their favourite wars. India is conventionally superior and wants to confine its war with Pakistan within the conventional realm. Pakistan wants to keep the conflict either in the sub-conventional realm (read terrorism) where it enjoys the monopoly in this dyad, or escalate it to the nuclear realm — where it has parity with India — bypassing a conventional war entirely.
The real tussle is economic. India's approach is to encourage the opposing side to spend itself into penury to keep defending itself against higher and higher perceived threats until economic collapse. Where have we seen such a strategy employed before, I wonder?