Hopefully Pessimistic
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Pakistan's failure against Afghanistan and counter-terrorism is honestly a reflection of its state failure at large.
There are 3 important key points to understand the root issue if you want to solve the problems:
1. All of Pakistan's neighbours have extremely coherent grassroots nationalist movements in power that are physically and narratively enroaching on Pakistan's territory, both through proxies, armies and explicit claims.
In comparison, Pakistan has no nationalist movement of its own to provide a coherent counter to them, and anchor its own policies to move away from being defensive, and go on the offensive. Its always under attack and it's because its largely confused.
The current status-quo of old feudal elites is outdated and can't compete. The population is like clueless cattle being exploited. And these feudal elites are structurally suppressing any grassroots nationalist movement from emerging that can actually better govern Pakistan, because it's not in favour of their rent seeking parasitical exploitation. The military also carries a weak colonial mentality of maintaining this system which is regressive.
2. Pakistan is not just fighting isolated militant groups but an entire local ecosystem that tacitly suppports it in many ways and makes counter-terrorism harder to do, this means political agitation groups, lending support to terrorist/separatist narratives, opposing policy at every chance that can defeat it.
3. The Pakistani population is pacifist and weak, and partially that is encouraged because of a state narrative of pacifisism, religious inferiority complex, and insecurity teaching itself to condemn its own nationalism and suck up to foreigners and their achievements, but hate themselves. Again without nationalism you cant be motivated to prosper.
There are 3 important key points to understand the root issue if you want to solve the problems:
1. All of Pakistan's neighbours have extremely coherent grassroots nationalist movements in power that are physically and narratively enroaching on Pakistan's territory, both through proxies, armies and explicit claims.
In comparison, Pakistan has no nationalist movement of its own to provide a coherent counter to them, and anchor its own policies to move away from being defensive, and go on the offensive. Its always under attack and it's because its largely confused.
The current status-quo of old feudal elites is outdated and can't compete. The population is like clueless cattle being exploited. And these feudal elites are structurally suppressing any grassroots nationalist movement from emerging that can actually better govern Pakistan, because it's not in favour of their rent seeking parasitical exploitation. The military also carries a weak colonial mentality of maintaining this system which is regressive.
2. Pakistan is not just fighting isolated militant groups but an entire local ecosystem that tacitly suppports it in many ways and makes counter-terrorism harder to do, this means political agitation groups, lending support to terrorist/separatist narratives, opposing policy at every chance that can defeat it.
3. The Pakistani population is pacifist and weak, and partially that is encouraged because of a state narrative of pacifisism, religious inferiority complex, and insecurity teaching itself to condemn its own nationalism and suck up to foreigners and their achievements, but hate themselves. Again without nationalism you cant be motivated to prosper.
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