So we are back on Blaming Nehru. This is getting frustrating now. Is he is supposed to camouflage our current shortcomings? 1962 is a dark chapter in history that we need to learn from. Nehru did not gave away Aksai Chin. We lost the battle fair & square albeit due to his poor policies that's we all agree on. To the victor goes the spoils. China wanted it & they got it.
We have to think that we can't afford any loss of land now. Whoever is in charge of the GOI is accountable to this.
*Sigh*
After thoroughly politicizing + compromising the military, basically hollowing it from the inside-out with his pal Krishna Menon.
Disrespecting/pushing out upstanding, quality Generals like Thimayya, and leaving the soldiers on the ground (without any air support - where we had the edge) lacking basic winter clothing and boots, rations/supplies, acclimatization time, ammunition, basic weapons to take on Chinese hordes w/ AK-47's (which our men faced using WW1 Lee Enfields, sticks and stones).
After all that, he told his lapdog Generals like Kaul/Thapar to just "go and throw the Chinese out." Sending our Army on a suicide mission with both hands tied to get slaughtered + shatter the morale of the nation and Armed Forces (which Nehru always secretly wanted to disband anyways).
And some people construe this as "well at least Nehru fought" - Do you people even hear yourselves talking? The same Nehru who "at least fought" also showed no remorse for his actions btw, he was indignant as ever in Parliament, saying that "Not a single blade of grass grew there anyways" - to which a brave Parliamentarian replied that "Panditji not a blade grows on your head either, but we wouldn't give it on a platter to the enemy"
Now when finally a guy comes along who's not hell bent on compromising the forces, after ~60 yrs of cumulative damage to the state of our military, our geopolitical situation and our strategic approach, and has been working on undoing all the fuck ups (including the immediately preceding decade long administration) in what is still only a 6 year long rule - people are mocking and attacking him.
Understand that if today the mainland of India, and its metros + civilian populations haven't seen a significant terror attack in ages, it's b/c of Modi and his team. If Naxals are on their last legs and Northeastern terror groups are on the verge of death - it's b/c of this administration. Ditto for the aggressive drive against terrorism in J&K plus working to remove various structural hurdles like 35A, 370 and cunning/dishonest local parties which were enabling that terrorism. These are all Nehruvian/Gandhian clusterfucks this guy is trying to clean up, while people throw jibes about "when do the mistakes of Congress expire?"
If today we've hit back Pakistan twice after terror attacks (does anyone still remember the emasculated feeling after 26/11?) - including the first airstrike on Pakistan proper since they became a nuclear power, and we can think of future scenarios where we'll hit them even harder, or take back lost territories - it's thanks to this Gvt.
And if today, we've well and truly begun standing up to the Chinese, matching their deployments at dispute sites and working to erase the infrastructure disparity (which AK Antony admitted was intentional - to prevent Chinese from rolling down the plains lmfao), while increasing involvement and cooperation with countries in the neighborhood (and outside of it) which are also looking to counter China - it's under this Gvt.
And all of this is why China is being so aggressive with us in the first place - there would be no extended standoffs if we simply gave up land like UPA.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's obviously difficult to stay steady and have faith when most of us are baying for blood - but no matter what, Modi has done a commendable job and he will still be much much better than the Congress which left us saddled with all these legacy issues.
