Been sporadic exchanges of gun fire (at significant range) a bit more generally than Kashmir but I've not so far heard of any serious direct fighting so far.
Are India and Pakistan about to have another showdown?
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Been sporadic exchanges of gun fire (at significant range) a bit more generally than Kashmir but I've not so far heard of any serious direct fighting so far.
It can't be that serious.
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I would think India would win in an all out conflict as long as it doesn't drag on, but the size of forces on both sides would make an all out conflict a catastrophe. Pakistan probably has more allies to call on with ideologically similar views which might have an impact - hopefully will calm down pretty quick
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Will never amount to anything. Indias armed forces have very close links to Russia and Israel whilst the China is a big backer of the Pakistanis and the new belt and road initiative. The limp that is the US at present and West won't generally get involved so I'd expect Putin and Xing to be picking up the phone to their counterparts to chill things. I could imagine flare up skirmishes around the LoC and in Kashmir but nothing further South.
I don't think a clear cut victory (ignoring nuclear potential) is there for either side - India might militarily have the upper hand especially in terms of being able to resupply and manpower but an advance into Pakistan would favour the defenders heavily and Pakistan does have a lot of experience with guerilla warfare, etc. to draw on.
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The thing is which other major player will back Pakistan other than China. As for the Arab nations I wouldn't expect many to get involved. Iran and India also have very close ties as India are a major importer of their oil.
All out conflict will never happen but even relatively contained conflicts along the border will be disastrous when you consider the sizes of eahh of their armed forces.
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I don't think it would take much for Middle Eastern countries to throw some assistance at one the world's largest Muslim countries - but hopefully I'm wrong
Those in a position to either have significant commercial interests with India or are fighting their own battles and probably wouldn't want to spare the resources.
The timing is a bit bad in that respect for Pakistan, at other points in time they'd have probably had more support from that direction.
EDIT: Just scanning down the list I think Jordan is the only country who might give them some significant level of support but they definitely wouldn't get involved in any conflict directly.
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That's them.
They do not hate each other. In all honesty, most of the Indians do not hate Pakistanis and vice versa.
Kashmir should have been a matter sorted out decades ago, but greed has played a major part.
I have always expected tensions to rise between the two political governments but what has occurred isn’t the answer.
yer that's right
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Good time to be a flag seller, sell to both sides, pure profit!
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To be fair, the first strike was by Pakistan. Well the JeM actually, but that is basically an ISI paramilitary outfit anyway.
Not ones who can project force outside their own border in any meaningful manner.