Governments are more likely to act under public pressure. If there is no public pressure, the government will be under less pressure to act. So, thank you for making my point. That is what I was trying to say. If military action against Pakistan is not known to the Pakistani public, the Pakistani government will have less incentive to act against India.
The Pakistani government can be used in two senses: (1) elected government, or (2) the military establishment.
Do not threaten anyone unless you are prepared to carry them out.
Constantine made the Roman Empire embrace Christianity so he is a traitor? Ashoka is a traitor because he made India Buddhist?
Interesting.
I knew this was going to gravitate towards religious demagoguery. It seldom doesn't.
You can do better than that.
A traitor is someone who betrays the civilisational values. Now, answer the question - how to protect the civilization from traitors within?
I didn't want to lecture this, but you are forcing me to: The most important part of life is design of living (called culture) and is also most important to be protected. The highest priority is to be given to this as building a civilisation (group of people with common culture) takes several generations, even thousands of years. Destruction of it takes just a generation. Hence it is important to protect the thousands of years of work of the previous generations. Betrayal in this regard is of utmost serious nature and undermines the wrk of everyone.
You don't seem to understand the point of a nation. A nation is a group of people with common culture and historical background. So, it is important that a select group of people don't get to control everyone and betray as ashoka or Constantine did. This is demagogue? Are you seriously out of your mind? When the very point of existence of a state is violated, do you call it professional behaviour?
People are not slaves of the ruling elite. It is just division of labour. There is no reason to say that the ruling elite is composed of superhumans who are capable of taking decisions better.
You never answered my question as to how to weed out traitors within and prevent a few people from enslaving the rest just because they felt so. Sloganeering is the most retarded thing one could do. Ukraine people lack any form of identity and that is a result of over a century of command economy whereby they were merely slaves of the state and had no other purpose of life. So, this is not really a good comparison
Economy very much determines firefighting capability. You need money, for food, clothes, equipment, etc.. The economy must be able to support the war effort.
You can have the biggest army in the world, but if you cannot feed them for 3 days, your army will disappear. I know I am borrowing this from somewhere, but I cannot remember whom to give credit to.
I think we are living in very different worlds.
I have been observing the Ukrainian Civil War for a long time. Kiev dispatched a detachment of soldiers with armoured personnel carriers from Dnepropetrovsk to Slavyansk but were not provided enough food rations. Guess what happened? The soldiers were hungry. They surrendered their weapons to the militia. The local fed the soldiers. Then, the soldiers went back to their homes.
Next, coming back to economy, today's economy is based in natural resources. Since natural resources is not abundant in india as compared to usa, Russia or China, it is obvious that Indian economy will always be weak. That, however doesn't mean that the civilization built over thousands of years is just undefended. Pakistan is even worse off. They lack even minimum resources needed. Hence their economy is faltering.
That is also why Pakistan made the statement of eating grass. Now, since India is not blessed with natural resource as USA, Russia, China but definitely has more resources than Pakistan, it is possible for India to focus the resources on defence build up instead of wasting on consumption. Thankfully, India has enough resources to keep its people fed, buy clothes with basic minimum resources while focusing other resource to building up defence. But it is important to prioritise.
A lot of technological development happened before World War II. Sorry, I think you should widen your horizon a little bit. The Industrial Revolution gave a massive boost to the Europeans and they are still enjoying the benefits of that boost.
Again, ww2 had gotten india lot of those technology. Also, these were about ideas, not software related and hence could be reverse engineered. China, as I have mentioned, were worse than India in 1950. How is it that they could make nuclear weapons, submarines, ICBM by 1980?
Yes, but we would have probably lost Kashmir, and that is a problem. It is more important to have Kashmir in our control because it is a matter of our water security. How someone draws a border on a map does not necessarily reflect how borders end up getting drawn in real life.
Population exchange was suggested by Ambedkar in 1947 itself. He was very vehement about it too.India might have lost Kashmir in return for Sindh as Sindh was Hindu majority. Or maybe there could have been a swap of Sindh for Kashmir.
Even the loss of Kashmir didn't include Jammu or Ladakh. The reduction of muslim population of 20 crore is way more important than Kashmir. Also, several rivers orignate or flow via Ladakh and Jammu and only a few via KAshmir. The loss wouldn't have been big. But the profit of reduced population would have been far greater. Also, considering that Pakistan drove away Hindus and Sikhs after partition, there was no reason to show any form of mercy but just drive out muslims without offering them anything from entire India, instead of just punjab.
Even if one has to eat grass?
Please read this article:
Eating grass
We have been mocking the Pakistanis for making such statements. I do not intend to mock you, but pray tell me, do you have an expectation to be taken seriously when you say the same thing?
Mankind is selfish. I am an admirer of anarchism (not to be conflated with lawlessness), but I doubt it can work in reality. In any case, what you say is an opinion, and I have nothing more to offer here.
This mocking is something I have explained earlier.
The point I made about India having to wait is simple military tactics. You have to wait for the opportunity when you act. A good general will pick a place and time when it maximizes his chances of victory. The example I gave was to highlight that the covert action in East Pakistan had to be kept a secret until all the favourable conditions sought by India were met.
I admit I wasn't clear earlier. Am I clearer now?
I agree with it. But, in today's context, Pakistan is blamed on behalf of islam itself. Due to several reasons:
1) Excessive Arab oil reserves and hence dependency
2) Lack of military technology which makes it even more important to get foreign resources
3) Presence of large muslims within India
4) Muslims everywhere around india - Malaysia, Indonesia, bangladesh, Pakistan etc
5) Independence was fake with mere transfer of powers whereby lot of anti-hindu elements and pro islam elements were slyly kept inside
6) Poor quality ancestors who lived like animals without any purpose in life and couldn't care less about protecting the civilisation or dharma and hence let the traitors and foreign agents run government.
7) Due to over 60 years of misrule and poor quality of people, the good people are in minority and hence have to resort to gimmicks to build perception and hence get elected again
8) The mistakes of the past is so glaring that the good people are weak and are unable to take direct action. Since the establishment itself is filled with traitors, it is important to focus on real issues. However, weakness due to past mistakes have made that difficult. Hence resorting to gimmicks and milder form of action.
If you have better option to protect the civilisation and buy time for building up defence against the established traitors and external enemies from outside
at the same time, please suggest.
