So let me get this straight... India for over a week was telegraphing that they were going to attack terrorist inside Pakistan proper (which is an act of war no matter how you spin it) knowing the PAF fighters would be flying CAP and READY but India had a moronic RoE at the time that even though they are hitting Pakistan itself and likely causing collateral damage they don't want to be painted as the aggressor by firing at PAF fighters? Really?
Yep, that's the idea.
Indian missiles blowing up inside Pakistan already made you the aggressor in Pakistan's eyes so that excuse doesn't fly.
Nope. As long as we hit terrorists, any retaliation makes Pakistan the aggressor.
As far as the world is concerned, we are "helping" Pakistan clean up.
Lets just be honest here if true about this RoE it was a complete Fk up by IAF or incompetence for thinking this way if this was the RoE for the strike.
Has nothing to do with RoE. Has everything to do with India not being able to afford being painted as the bad guy, at least in our current stage of economic development.
Trump and Modi have the same political enemies, so these enemies are looking for a chance to string them up. So neither can give an excuse to allow that. Trump does not have the full ability to clean up the rot within the US, but Modi has the chance to do it 'cause he does not have to deal with term limits. He's very close to achieving a supermajority. Trump's gonna have to attempt is via successors.
Ever since Obama came to power, the Democrats, the Indian Congress, the British leadership including the Crown, the EU Parliament, the WEF, and the pre-Xi leadership in China have all been in cahoots together to suppress the Republicans, the BJP, and all other nationalist parties around the world (Netanyahu, Brazil's Bolsonaro, Romania's Georgescu, Ukraine's Yanukovych, Germany's Weidel etc).
Sadly, this collective is more powerful than all the individual nationalists. So Modi (BJP) cannot afford to give them an excuse that can result in widespread mayhem in India, similar to all your BLM riots, which is easy to instigate 'cause people have all been gaslit by propaganda, similar to white people in the West. Both India and the US are victims of the oppressor and oppressed narrative. Racism in the US, caste in India. And it's all happening 'cause most people in the West have become idiots to fall for it, whereas Indians are waking up to the threat rapidly.
And now we have Trump, Modi, even Xi, fighting back together. Trump's stolen the Palestine narrative from the Democrats by talking about supporting it. Modi's stolen the caste narrative by supporting a caste census which they were vocally opposed to for many years. And Xi is normalizing relations with Trump and Modi. Politics is fun when you can see the great game being played.
There's a military angle too. As two nuclear powers, India has been testing Pakistan's limits. And we have discovered those limits. This discovery led to Trump being invited to intervene by Pakistan, and the US has assumed control over Pakistan's nukes. As Pakistan is slowly pushed into an economic bunghole, they will become less and less resistant to US pressure due to the erosion of legitimacy. Eventually, Pak will have to give up nukes to survive. In time, with the nuke threat gone, we can turn them into our punching bag, or just use force to split the country into many pieces and normalize relations with most factions.
