Probably a mistake on India's part, but the future will tell us.
We have the habit of squandering away the gains made on the battlefield on the negotiation table, famously after the 1971 war that birthed Bangladesh where thousands of square kilometers of captured territory and 93,000 POWs were given up without forcing the Pakistanis to hand over POJK and GB.
This is without considering historical examples when Islamic raiders would lose battle after battle and Hindu kings would let them go back till the day the Hindus lose and are slaughtered enmasse.
Some good things have come out of this:
* We now know that Chinese radars do not work against Indian supersonic/hypersonic missiles.
* The Indian air defense systems proved themselves by shooting down drones, missiles and aircraft.
* India has changed its soft policy on terror by considering an terror attack on Indian soil to be an act of war.
* India is going to starve them of water. The suspension of the IWT stands.
This is a temporary pause. It is Pakistan's psyche to go running to America for help each time it has been spanked by India. And once it recovers, it tries another "misadventure."
While it is in India's interest to dismember Pakistan into four parts, it is in America's interest to keep the irritant alive. The US let China grow into the behemoth that it is. And it does not want to see this being repeated again with India.
We live in interesting times.
leosanchez · 36m ago
> We have the habit of squandering away the gains made on the battlefield on the negotiation table
Do you think religion has anything to do here ? We pardoned rulers multiple times, who later came back to invade us.
sieve · 28m ago
In a way, yes. Hinduism slowly lost its warrior ethos post Buddhism and Jainism and their fetishization of non-violence.
All our books (itihasas and shastras) warn about enemies and how to deal with them. And people simply forgot all that.
As far as the opponents go, the religion doesn't really matter. Kings spared Mihirakula[1] of the Huns (who was a Shaivite Hindu) just like they spared various Islamic/Turkic raiders. And the results were as expected: betrayal and murder.
OT. I was watching Radhavallabh Tripathi's 3-episode series on Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitram where he covers the politics of that era. And this point comes up. You can find it on YT (in Hindi) if you are interested.
We have the habit of squandering away the gains made on the battlefield on the negotiation table, famously after the 1971 war that birthed Bangladesh where thousands of square kilometers of captured territory and 93,000 POWs were given up without forcing the Pakistanis to hand over POJK and GB.
This is without considering historical examples when Islamic raiders would lose battle after battle and Hindu kings would let them go back till the day the Hindus lose and are slaughtered enmasse.
Some good things have come out of this:
* We now know that Chinese radars do not work against Indian supersonic/hypersonic missiles.
* The Indian air defense systems proved themselves by shooting down drones, missiles and aircraft.
* India has changed its soft policy on terror by considering an terror attack on Indian soil to be an act of war.
* India is going to starve them of water. The suspension of the IWT stands.
This is a temporary pause. It is Pakistan's psyche to go running to America for help each time it has been spanked by India. And once it recovers, it tries another "misadventure."
While it is in India's interest to dismember Pakistan into four parts, it is in America's interest to keep the irritant alive. The US let China grow into the behemoth that it is. And it does not want to see this being repeated again with India.
We live in interesting times.
Do you think religion has anything to do here ? We pardoned rulers multiple times, who later came back to invade us.
All our books (itihasas and shastras) warn about enemies and how to deal with them. And people simply forgot all that.
As far as the opponents go, the religion doesn't really matter. Kings spared Mihirakula[1] of the Huns (who was a Shaivite Hindu) just like they spared various Islamic/Turkic raiders. And the results were as expected: betrayal and murder.
OT. I was watching Radhavallabh Tripathi's 3-episode series on Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitram where he covers the politics of that era. And this point comes up. You can find it on YT (in Hindi) if you are interested.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihirakula
Do you recommend any books regarding our civilization, religion ? Ideally in English, I am not a native Hindi speaker.
Good. It was a mistake in any case.