It may come as a shock to many...
"Pakistan is a soft state by design"!!!...
Let that sink in... It makes for easier manipulation... circus keeps going and diversion/distraction becomes easy. Faces are changed or replaced as needed. People form new memories, new loyalties... the representation is never real... IT is ALWAYS superficial.
With new geopolitical realities these games may come to a head. Because of interests from parties involved and invested. Ones more invested may extract a price... remember IT IS NOT ABOUT PEOPLE OR DEMOCRACY, IT NEVER WAS!
If powers that be pull strings, things may get nastier... proper civil conflict even. Remember strings are pulled from outside and loyalists are house nigers! More loyal to master's cause than the master himself.
Remember structures when built form their own order and succession. They draw their own loyalties, affiliations and coercions/compulsions. It creates muscle memories with succession and a glass ceiling. One only puts full efforts to ascend in the established domain. Anything else or outside is dangerous, treacherous even...
So, Pakistanis feel a lot riding in the current discourse... there is and there isn't... it only matters on how you look at it.
All of this foreword to say just this thing that people in power do what they're designed to do... pain will increase as old wounds start opening up and those with agendas expose themselves.
Y'all were never prepared for this and have been conditioned to become effeminate and soft. Well, reality will feel scary and painful. And we are all in this together, drifting towards reality.
You'd think that the gravity of situation would give Pakistanis time to pause and reflect... it didn't!
Pakistan stands as the only soft state that is also a nuclear power.
It was by all intents and purposes just nuked!!!
No one knew if that missile was armed or unarmed... neither should one have believed or made that judgment even when called ...
It is, it was, it would have been too late!
The consequential nature of what just happened will only dawn on people over time. Imagine Russia pounding Ukraine and making it a pile of rubble for only posing a "future" threat to the well-being being of Russian federation.
Iraq was bombed back to stone age only because it was assumed they were "endeavoring" to make a nuke!
Libya destroyed! It's leader executed without even a sham trial.
North Koreans live in a hermit kingdom, but as a brass knuckle.
Pakistan, to the detriment of its own masses seems oblivious to what is heading it's way. A nuclear state cannot afford to be a banana republic, running on the whims and diktats of others... no such luxury. It must endeavor to carve it's own path... for that it must escape from clutches of it's former masters and shadow of nations/peoples it looks upto as trailblazers or role models. They are nothing but a mirage... mere optics!!!
Can you even imagine as Saddam of yore or as the current joker of Ukraine, any politician roaming streets of bombed out Pakistani cities? Showing bravado and resolve in perseverance? Could you? (Knowing that they all may use their power, prestige or money to get the first flight out)
Remember geopolitics is ruthless... it does not know your personal struggles or familial ties!!!
DO NOT BECOME A STATISTIC!