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  1. mendosa

    Trump Administration to Tighten Screws on Pakistan

    Everything is fine. I just cannot imagine F16s with an Indian flag on it. Let's hope it is a planted news. Whatever we buy now will remain with the IAF till 2050. Do want to be playing a second fiddle to Uncle Sam for that long? With European companies, the risk of being pushed around is...
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    Trump Administration to Tighten Screws on Pakistan

    Yes, Gripen has proprietary technology with US intellectual property rights on it. So it might be a problem, OR, if India puts its foot down and insists on buying Gripen then the US might still allow it because they will also make money from Gripen deal since the engine will fetch them...
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    Trump Administration to Tighten Screws on Pakistan

    Those are my own thoughts. I've observed that whenever there are multilateral forums where geopolitics is discussed, it is the Americans who keep criticizing their previous policy, admitting to committing a folly and pretending to be sorry about it. One would feel that they are so humble, given...
  4. mendosa

    Trump Administration to Tighten Screws on Pakistan

    We have a lot of cards, but a card is only a card if you play it. We could simply pass a law saying that we would restrict weapons purchases from a country which sells weapons to Pakistan, or we don't have a trade deal with such a nation, or something to that effect. At the very least, we could...
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    Trump Administration to Tighten Screws on Pakistan

    There's no FP shift, this was the plan all along. They cultivated a 'threat' to force India to buy weapons against that threat. That's how goons blackmail others in ghettos. They tell businessmen that there are many other goons out there and they will offer protection if you give them money. The...
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    Trump Administration to Tighten Screws on Pakistan

    On the contrary, if the western border gets heated up, all the 'non-state assets' will migrate to the western border to take on the Americans. This is why India keeps hoping that the US doesn't leave because when the pressure is released from the western borders, all the freelance terrorists...
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