Something is really bothering me and after reading the NYT article about both sides talking big with little demage to prove, I am starting to wonder if both sides did really try hard not to cross the red line and demage anything worth fighting over.
Yes we lost 11 brave souls and Indians lost on their side too. But after exchanging thousands of missiles/ drones and artillary what do we have to show for demage? a few craters here and there ....some vague blurred images of radars hit???? where is the real demage this fire power should have caused?
Indian drones were flying completely aimlessly over our cities and we had Fatah rockets being fired in open and live tweeted for the whole world to geo locate but yet not a single drone hit was recorded on our equipment which was completely exposed. I have not seen any video from the Indian side showing such open exposure of armour there so I have no idea where they were responding from and what our drones were doing.
Isnt this wierd that drones were flying all over but yet they hit almost NO target at all?
For me the humiliation that Indians faced should have made them react harshly but were they really this coward that they pulled their airforce back and decided to rely on their Stormshadows and Brahmos missiles?
I am really confused......
I explained this right from the start
BOTH countries understand the consequences of escalation, we are HEAVILY ARMED, it would be a blood bath, and absolute blood bath if we really unleashed on each other
The militaries understand this, politicians understand this also
But when you have extremist politics like hindutva and a sanghi population, then you corner yourself
The Indians for a solid decade have attempted SMOKE AND MIRROR actions that they can then bullshit their delusional public with through propaganda
Pakistan has responded to these well, and humiliated India twice now, which then put the Indians in a tough position
But BOTH countries pulled their punches, launched limited strikes and pulled back rather then escalate and watch thousands be killed
Once the Indians lost the IAF, they retreated to a safe spot with drones and strikes and so did we
We used Fatah 1 and 2s and didn't even bring out baburs, Raads or SRBMs
We didn't go into full conflict mode