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How do you know that they find it difficult? It is being used for the last 70+ years and working fine till now. Yes, it is not the best route but it is what it is and being used as I said earlier.Even small cargo traffics find it difficult to pass this narrow and zigzag corridor.
I understand that all the tactics of war in your book have been read only by the Chinese. I don’t have an answer to such an assessment.And, the PLA troops are just waiting 100 km above with ROSE PETALS that will destroy your corridor. Please see in the map how the Chinese land corner protruding between Sikkim and Bhutan. PLA airforce will overwhelm your convoy with ROSE PETALS.
You created a situation and an answer that is unlikely to happen.So, tell me how can you connect with your NE without our express permission?
While Chinese are attacking and blocking the chicken neck, Indian forces wouldn’t be twiddling their thumbs. While India has choke points, China too has exposed routes on a flat Tibetan plateau. I am sure that the Indian forces must have worked out some kind of strategy and are not waiting for a thread on PDF to work out their strategy.
Actually it is PDF where people dreamt of a situation where BD would go hostile on India and that would result in a crushing defeat for India. No one is dreaming here. The routes through BD were never and would never be available. Why would India start dreaming on something that hasn’t happened in the last 70+ years? Dreaming and planning based on an imaginary route.You may say many things to counter my points but the Indian govt must give due consideration to these points instead of indulging in over dreaming.
It will certainly come but only to sell its little older versions of weapons that they would otherwise destroy in the Texas deserts. India would be a good market.
Till now India has bought top of the line equipment from the US. C-17, Apache, P8I, Chinook are one of the best in their class across the world. US apparently pressurised India to buy something from them rather than go for S400. India refused because it wanted the best stuff for its money. Political decisions do influence such purchases at times but it doesn’t seem to have happened with US till now. US rebadged F-16 as F-21 and tried the same trick. Hasn’t worked till now.
Yes you have a good point there. US has proven to be extremely cut and dry when it comes to its own benefit.Do not please depend upon America.
India doesn’t rely on US blindly. India has made better relations with US but has maintained good relations with Russia too. That’s how India has evaded sanctions even after buying S400 but a NATO ally like Turkey couldn’t. Today’s India is pragmatic towards the geo-politics and plays the game that is to its benefit. Those who presume that the Indian policy makers are dumb have probably not got the drift of the Indian moves in the last decade and a half.
There are no permanent enemies and friends in geo-politics. This goes for everyone. India was forced to tilt towards US due to undue offensive posturing by China. That doesn’t mean that India has become a vassal state of the US. It is likely to maintain a fair degree of manoeuvring space if things change in the future.
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