Somehow this forum is surprisingly resistant to sane logic, a practice prevalent on our reciprocal “green” forum.
Geopolitics is not a binary logic. Total boycott and other extremist steps at the slightest issue is childish.
Answer these questions -
1. Now that trade and relations are at complete halt with Pakistan, is our soldiers safe and secure ?
2. You can trade and use the money to buy ATGMs to blow Pakistani posts aswell. During the height of WW2, Germany and England were still trading rubber. Whole Europe & America is still buying Russian oil. Can we maintain the same posture ?
3. Since we have established that trade/economic passage to Afghanistan is beneficial for both countries, we can still keep the option open for Balakot and punishment via economic measures (read, create a dependency, then suffocate them). Won’t that be a win-win situation for us ?
Of the many states that have failed and disintegrated in the post ww2 Era, most failed due to an inability of the state to provide basic necessary services for life. Food, water, medical care and jobs for upward mobility.
Pakis are on a downward spiral on all these. They are on terminal decline. I am against any help being given to them to decrease inflation and provide the Pakistani state the ability to meet the basic needs of their jihad population.
What will happen to the mullah selling dreams of Ghazwa-e-hind as he slurps Nihari as the masses die of starvation.? Their elite will be lynched to appropriate their food and other resources. Their army will be too busy leading labbaik crowds against their government than have the spare energy to concentrate on India.
I have a theory about why the ENTIRE Pakistani political elite have ganged up against Immydim.
Under IK slowly but surely Pakistan was alienating all the external support bases that were keeping the country in a manageable shape. Despite all their shenanigans the Pakis had good ability to grow enough food for themselves. Food is most important for national stability.
Under IK the Pakistani nation went into food imports and currency devaluation. Runaway inflation was only kept in control by burning Forex to prop up Rupee and finance imports of essentials. If things kept going like that, Pakistan would reach a state when they would literally run out of food for their population. That would cause a political upheaval which would mean the lamppost fate for the majority of the political elite of Pakistan.
I believe they saw this writing on the wall, hence the urgency to remove IK and recalibrate relationships with west and India. Because it is their only hope to offset the coming death spiral.
Knowing this would you really want to trade with Pakistan and provide them with a lifeline to stave off this death spiral?
If you thought of the PAKI problem from a pure national security perspective, with no civilization component to the irreconcilable enmity between us and them then sure we would trade with them.
But from the perspective of civilizational survival and resurgence, their should be no help and way out be given, least of all from us.
Let the Ghazis declare holy war on each other. For a bag of rice and wheat flour. Let us watch it all while cramming greasy samosas and Desi chicken curry like the Evil baniyas we are.
