There are no chains on this topic especially when you start on nitpicks. I don’t know from where you got this 10 billion a year pop when Indian buildup in Kashmir has many other connotations not just insurgency which is being handled by paramilitary and local police.
Regional unrest costs100s of billions not just 10s in GDP to India. Why are you taking it to mean expense on security.
It is quite worthless for me to entertain an assertion which spins Modi’s ice breaking visit as breach of protocol. He is the captain of the ship, he makes and break protocol not some social media tin pot.
Worthless or worth it is an individual call. I reiterate, it was not an ice-breaking visit. It was an urgent visit to NS (wait for the memoirs for details of that visit). Go back to your original post n see that your own tone to the visit was raising a question, to which I reacted. And yes you r the mod but you should not be sitting in judgement. You may agree or disagree to a POV, I am cool with that, but no name calling pls. Give it a few years n you will see the meaning of that visit to NS n I say again it was not ice-breaking. Hint- owning.
Pakistan is a pinprick this is how GoI sees it. I categorically made it clear with my opening remarks. I however see it differently and my lens is no less than civilisational. I was simply stating a fact given Pakistan has gone unpunished or not escalated above their level of attacks.
No disputing pinpricks. Pak hasen't gone unpunished. Punishment ain't just strikes. Economic strikes r it. They are economically paralysed. N it's India's welcome doing.
Our region is contained within its internal tractions. This is how our government sees it otherwise we could have already got involved militarily in Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan or Nepal. Not to mention we have best logistics carrying capabilities to do that. Same is the case with our diplomatic interference which are very subtle and hardy get into serious upheavals.
India as a matter of policy dosen't intervene militarily except UNPKF and request for intervention. The latter is on case by case basis. Afghanistan being the latest point in case.
Subtle diplomacy yes, but, no serious upheavals.... kindly revisit your thoughts on this. India is playing Big Time in Afghanistan.
This shows that our national interests for all the good reasons are decoupled from the region but more focused on establishing good trade and strategic relationships with Western powers including Russia. Have you ever heard strategic relationship with any of our neighbours or any serious security investment weaved around trade and information sharing?
Decoupled, definitely yes. But decoupling dosen't mean ignoring. It just means one process is independent of another. Am on same page regarding the rest of the para.
Your attempt was good when you wanted me to follow the money. I do not know from where you got those exaggerated numbers. I see even bigger numbers elsewhere and can say for sure that our investment in the region is just peanuts
See, you getting the point wrong again. It's about billions lost in GDP, not referring to investment/expenses at all. And as you yourself said in the previous para..... it's abt trade (money), so no harm following that trail too.
* It's not called nitpicking. It's a a disagreement to your POV on certain issues.
