@M.Bison
Now coming to your point, You say Indians don't need to or want to win this proxy war but the Indian posture contradicts your point of view. First off, India has started to scale back its relations with Iran. This is a direct slight to her aspirations to dominate trade with Central Asia. Trade has been stopped and chabhar's funding has been downgraded. By doing this, India has made it clear that it will always side with Israel and evangelicals within the United States.
This could be true.
But maybe India does not want to invest in Chabahar port, because there is not much going through that port.
It is not economically viable. I do not think that it has anything to do with Israel or evangelicals within the U.S.
The Americans have realized that the National Afghan Army is useless. Trump's largemouth has made his voters embarrassed to elect him and he desperately needs a talking point for his next term. He first tried to get India to post some Vedic soldiers within Afghanistan but the Hindus know better. The days of Ashoka are long gone and while barking very loud, the Hindus don't have enough muscle to outdo the Coalition of the willing. So Trump and the US called on an old friend, Pakistan to once again get it out of a bad predicament. Trump also humiliated India by making her sit at the kiddy table while the parents spoke about more sophisticated things.
But are saying that Pakistan needs to do the work, that India would not want to do?
How is that a win for Pakistan and a loss for India?
So now what does a psychopath do when she gets slighted? She goes on a spree of murder, rape, and tyranny.
Indian intelligence and BJP party members have made it crystal clear that after the Americans pull out of Afghanistan they are afraid of jihad inside Kashmir. So like a scared cat, the Indians have decided to scratch preemptively instead of waiting for things to happen.
War is always the last option and the Indian establishment has no other choice. Given what India is doing in recent times, you can see that India sees war as a viable option. She failed miserably in asymmetric warfare. So now she wants to try her hand in a real war. That is the conclusion. The war is not going on and on, it is coming to its rightful conclusion.
It could be true that India has revoked Article 370 in order to solidy their presence in Kashmir and to have a stronger 'buffer' for anything that might 'spillover' from Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves.
But I think it is more a defensive move than a preparation for a real war.
Your second point that the Pakistani economy was bled with proxy warfare from the Indians is again false. Indians need to realize that a large portion of the Pakistani economy is unaccounted for. Pakistan's government and Bureaucracy mismanage taxes and are horrendously corrupt. Pakistani politicians have a bad habit of directly siphoning monies into personal offshore accounts while borrowing from the IMF to run the affairs of laypeople.
It is true that a large portion of the Pakistani economy is unaccounted for.
Yet, when war occures, higher government spending, to fund this war, increases inflation, which results in higher cost of living, doing business, borrowing money etc. It impacts every aspect of the economy, whether this is accounted or unaccounted for.
Lol, I like the way you have summed things so simply. But fortunately, the events on the ground are different from your preception. The Indian populace is gullible and is purposefully kept stupid via religion and superstition. The once-mighty educated Hindu that elected soft-spoken backstabbing educated people has now resorted to being lead by loud, bear-hugging chia walas.
It is true that the politicians from the Indian National Congress are / were more soft-spoken and cunning than the politicians from the Bharatiya Janata Party. The INC also had a better way of dealing with the foreign affairs of India. They did not however had a better way of dealing with the internal affairs of India with regards to the majority of Indians: the Hindus. Pseudo-secularism and minority appeasement were two policies which the INC practiced that alienated many Hindus from their party. An example are the places of worship, where those of Hindus are controlled by the government and do not get any funding, while those of non-Hindus are not controlled and do get funding. This lack of true secularism led to the creation and rise of political parties such as the BJP who claim to fight for Hindus. And thus many Hindus voted for the BJP. If the INC had not practiced pseudo-secularism and minority appeasement, the BJP would not have existed or would be a minor party of no importance.
@PaulSimon
US wants a deal from Pakistan/Taliban to allow US to keep a check against Russia & China in Central Asia including Chinese province of Xinjiang. In return for this US would allow Pakistan/Taliban to annex/retain control from Afghanistan to Kashmir.
Do you really think that the U.S. would allow Pakistan or the Taliban to annex Kashmir?
Really?
You would be amazed that when Pakistan or the Taliban tries to annex the whole of Kashmir, not only India but also the U.S., Russia and China would object.
And of course there will be a war between India and Pakistan.
You would also be amazed that in this war India would get military and logistic support from the U.S., Russia, Israel, Iran, France etc.
While Pakistan would probably only get moral support from Turkey and China.
Ask any Pakistani member on this forum.
They will admit it.
What is wrong with you?
Do you really believe the words that you are typing?