TheDarkKnight
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As far as foreign policy, Pakistan threw its a door open to US to it's own detriment across the cold war + 15 years, now it's doing the same vis-a-vis china.
Both wars that Pakistan participated were for exactly the same reason - Pakistan First. Afghan jihad was initiated by Pakistan before US/West joined the holy cause. So no this war wasn’t for dollars or jets as you had accused - Pakistans interest were to stand up to the soviet power, it was just easier with US support.
Same was the case for Afghan war 2 - where joining War on terror was the sensible thing to do. Please do point out an example where a FP decision was based on Dollars or Jets?
On the contrary history shows Pakistan gave up on billions of dollar offers for Yemeni war and actually lost the aid/jets from US due to its FP decisions in Afghan theater.
I just don’t understand the condescending tone about these foreign policy decisions. Based on your attitude I guess you expect that unless Pakistan commits economic and diplomatic suicide as a rogue state like Iran or becomes a vassal state like Bangladesh for India, its just selling out for dollars to China and USA.
And that is fine, but if a moderator is baiting straw incidence to generalize a nationality, I am going to point it out.
When a moderator on this forum thinks, outright lying (common trump trait) = signal for India to "do more", how do you gauge that.
Well assuming Trump is lying, then he could use lying for that specific purpose as well. He certainly did make fun of Modi talking about building a Library in Afghanistan - and that was satirical criticism of Indias soft role in WOT. I don’t mean to support his views etc. but he has been demanding other countries to really “do more” including his close western allies. His track record definitely is that of BSer. But please do remember your stance here next time for Pakistan as well, when in a few months due to his unstable personality he spews some nonsense about Pakistan just like he did in the past. The Indian govt, media and members here would join his troll band wagon and start singing in consonance. This specific behavior will be expected from trolls but not from title holders.
The main question is still - did Modi say something privately to Trump? Trumps struggle with reality is well known, but is he lying in this specific instance as well ? He was quite specific with the details about his conversation with Modi. Indian MEA just repeated its official stance though.
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