What I was trying to say is basically thisNo dude, today something interesting posted on Israeli media.
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Iran and Hezbollah are staunch enemies of Israel, and we are friendly with Iran. It is analogous to, lets say if a Pakistani terrorist attack killed Sri Lankan citizens, we will take this opportunity to drive a wedge.
Am getting this right - they placed an IED in a culvert, the explosion broke the road above but probably not have enough explosives to destroy any vehicle passing over it (in there actually was any vehicle passing at the exact moment). IMO its just good luck for us, could have been a high casualty event in different circumstances.
I beg to disagree. India is a big player in ME. We have considerable influence with all parties and we have substantial RAW presence in the area. ME is like our backyard.
No military presence however. RAW presence would also have it's roots into Paki activities monitoring, tracking their finances and stuff but getting into their fights isn't something we've ever heard. Just when a few days back the UAE boat was hijacked with Indian nationals all we did was appeal to the Houthis. India is a big economic player, and may have considerable intelligence presence (that too mostly Paki focused) but we can't do anything militarily(like Uncle Sam or the Chongs or Iranians or the Ruskies, even Turks to Western Asia side)
You’ll have to play smart whenever possible, not all responses should be with force. Any kinetic response to Houthi hijackers would have made India vulnerable, because the Houthis are Iran backed hence you will never want sour relations with Iran. The ship was hijacked because of it being Emirati not because it had Indians. Never forget that what happened outside Israeli embassy in New Delhi might happen all over India if Iran wants and you know the reason why.
I understand, I was simply pointing out at the lack of capacity to do so. What direct military action could we have done against them even if we were to put out the Iran factor out of the equation for the sake of argument? None, anything would've to be directed from India only- a Marcos operation or otherwise. And that's perfectly fine, as and when our economy grows and hopefully our leaders and babus come out of non-alignment failure, we may have military bases in the ME and Africa.
Its not that we haven’t done anything, I remember an incident when some Emirati princess was recovered from a Yatch off the shores of Goa by MARCOS. It was a complicated story but MARCOS if wants can anyday do it.
Well MARCOS did storm the Yatch, its not that they were aware of it, they can anyday conduct an op in such Hijacks.
She was running away from her royal family with a foreign aide, we caught their boat in Indian waters and handed them back to Sheikhs so as to not piss them off
Understandably practical, but not something to be proud of
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Yes, they can but we don't have any Marcos/SF/NSG stationed anywhere in ME. And we have shown NO appetite to engage in any of their military affairs (which is not wrong, no point in fighting for a savage against a savage unless there are some huge gains to be made)
Indian Navy warships remain deployed in Arabian Sea everytime, you don’t need to have a Naval base, last I heard we do have a military base access in Duqm port in Oman but don’t know that we have deployed anything there or not.
India signed ceasefire agreement when biden took oath.Still wondering how Pakis got us to accept the ceasefire agreement. Our shelling used to clearly make them sh*t bricks. They managed to prevent us from using our big guns while they still happily send infiltrations across LoC. How? Am I missing something here?
You don't need military presence everywhere. Actually military presence can be counter-productive. RAW and MEA are enough to have to protect Indian interest.
RAW is not solely focused on on Pakistan. Yes we do have a dedicated Pakistan desk but Pakistan is not the hole focus of RAW.
Except from US none of the mentioned countries can do anything, not even Chinese.
China already has a military base in Djibouti and is developing one in UAE. Whether they choose to intervene or not, they do have the capability to intervene if needed- they can go a notch above diplomatic intervention and a nudge to the host country. Rest all the countries are fighting proxy battles throughout the region
China has military and diplomatic capability to interfere in middle east but not intelligence
I'm also not in favor of getting into any unrelated conflicts but was simply pointing towards the lack of capability to do so in ME presently.
Sirji what you are saying will be a very big thing , invasion from indian side to me , kek
Invasion nahi keh Raha main
