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    India Coffee House

    Two of India's greatest leaders share birthdays. Gandhiji and Lal Bahadur Shastri. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/gandhi-jayanti-2021-president-kovind-pm-modi-lead-tributes-for-mahatma-gandhi-101633141906352.html It's absurd that many Indians still continue to sing praises of...
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    To an extent, yes in the sense that it can prevent complete annihilation but not complete military humiliation and defeat as witnessed in the Kargil War fought under the nuclear umbrella where the Pakistanis ran to the Americans to bail them out.
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    No one in his or her right mind would give much cred to Pak's military making a dent in any of its endeavors. The concern, as rightly highlighted, is what if nukes fall into the hands of those who are happy to go down in a blaze of glory so they don't care about M.A.D. - they won't even care if...
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    American responses change based on the administration in power. You think a GW Bush / Cheney Admin would have withdrawn from Afghanistan even in 2021. If the Americans had said they are staying put in Kabul propping up the Ghani and successor regimes, the Pakistani military/political admin would...
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    The entire report is posted above including your cherry picked paragraphs. What follows the cherry paras are these These official assurances have fallen largely on deaf ears at the White House, principally because one president after another has learned from American intelligence that these...
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    This thread isn't about India. Whatever issues you have with India including its nuclear programme, please address them in the appropriate forum.
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    They didn't even inform the Pakistanis that the American troops were coming in and taking out Osama. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-didnt-share-osama-bin-ladens-location-with-pakistan-over-lack-of-trust-report-2304352
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    Didn't they come in and kill Osama in Pak? You think they'd dare to do that to Iran? Can't compare Iran to Pak.
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    If the academic standard dictionary in North America "means nothing", then what does?
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    Because it is not disparaging https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chicom
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    India India - Pakistan Relations

    Are they trolling Pakistan by making him confess with a glass of tea in front of him?
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    This has been a big cause for concern for India too. Amongst the aforementioned terrorist organizations which find safe haven in Pakistan LeT and LeJ are rabidly India centric.
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    @Nilgiri @VCheng @T-123456 @Joe Shearer @crixus @Zapper
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    Analysis The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

    From the Brookings Institute https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/09/28/the-agonizing-problem-of-pakistans-nukes/ "This is a new world,” President Joe Biden declared, when justifying his pullout from Afghanistan and explaining his administration’s war on global terrorism in an...
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    See @Nilgiri answer above.
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    Stealing horses apparently
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    The LoC with Pak has smart fencing. The race with China is to develop infrastructure. The earlier idea was to keep it underdeveloped on either side so it because useless to enter the area and move forward. But China has been on a infrastructure building spree and India is at least a decade and a...
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    The border is huge and not everywhere is manned and not even demarcated. They often cross each others' territories, but it's usually a small patrol, not a contingent as big as 100. When they come face to face there is usually a confrontation and both return
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    Over 100 Chinese troops entered 5 km into India.

    It was announced in 1911 and the formal shift happened in 1931. Calcutta was the commercial capital of India till the 1960s, on par with Bombay. It was also a hot bed of nationalism against the British - hence their decision to move it.

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