Oh crap!  Here we go again….two nuke power countries in a struggle for whatever it is they are actually after.

A Region that has been in conflict for decades and few people pay attention because it does not involve the US and its propensity for war.

The so-called ‘war’ between India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir has been off and on since 1947 when India and Pakistan was liberated from the heel of England….and it has been off and on since that day.

The reason I am offering up this analysis is because the region has become hot yet again.

India has fired missiles into Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, marking a major escalation between the two nuclear-armed powers.

The attack came amid tensions over the April 22 terrorist attack near the Pahalgam area of Indian-administered Kashmir, which killed 26 people. All but one of the victims were Indian tourists.

India blamed the massacre on a group called The Resistance Front (TRF) and accused Pakistan of supporting the attack, which Islamabad has strongly denied.

Early Wednesday morning, New Delhi time, India announced that its forces had struck nine locations in Pakistan and the Pakistan side of the disputed Kashmir region. Islamabad confirmed attacks on five locations: two in Pakistan’s Punjab province and three in Kashmir, including Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Pakistan officials have said at least eight people were killed by the Indian strikes. According to AP, one official said a missile struck a Mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab and killed a child.

India claimed that it only struck “known terror camps” and that the attack had been “measured, responsible, and designed to be nonescalatory in nature.” But the missile strikes are the most significant Indian attacks on Pakistani territory in decades. In 2019, India launched airstrikes on an alleged training camp in Balakot, Pakistan, but that attack only targeted one location.

Islamabad is vowing it will respond and has claimed that its forces shot down five Indian fighter jets. “We were fully prepared, which is why India received an immediate and firm response,” said Information Minister Attaullah Tarar.

Pakistani officials also said India has not provided any evidence for its allegations that Islamabad was involved in the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

In response to the news of the Indian attack, President Trump said the violence was a “shame” and that he hoped it would end quickly. “I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They’ve been fighting for a long time,” he said. “I hope it ends very quickly.”

Indian officials have said they “briefed” Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the attack. Pakistani sources also reported that Rubio spoke with Pakistan’s national security advisor.

Any conflict between India and Pakistan always risks nuclear escalation since both sides have a nuclear arsenal. According to the Arms Control Association, Pakistan is believed to have about 170 nuclear warheads, and India has an estimated arsenal of 164 warheads.

(antiwar.com)

This may mean nothing to the average American but the key words are ‘nuclear escalation’….in case those words do not mean much it is when two countries exchange nuke attacks….got it now?

The missiles early Wednesday struck locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province, according to Pakistani security officials. One of them struck a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed and a woman and man were injured, one official said. The officials, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity, said Pakistan had launched retaliatory strikes, without providing any details.

• The Pakistani army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, told ARY News that the missiles were launched from within Indian territory and that no Indian aircraft had entered Pakistani airspace. “This was a cowardly attack targeting innocent civilians under the cover of darkness,” Sharif told the broadcaster.
• “Let me say it unequivocally: Pakistan will respond to this at a time and place of its own choosing. This heinous provocation will not go unanswered,” Sharif said, per the Telegraph. “This temporary happiness that India has achieved with this cowardly attack will be replaced with enduring grief.”
• India’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that at least nine sites were targeted “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned.” “Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistan military facilities have been targeted,” the statement said, adding that “India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution.” The military said the strikes were part of Operation Sindoor

Right now it is a minor mash-up and as usual there is the inevitable war of words and threats.

We have an idiot in DC and seems to have a taste for conflict…..who will the US side with?

Keep in mind the India is a member of the international bloc known as BRICS….and because of that alliance do you think if a wider war starts will Russia and China come to the aid of India?

If they do jump in on the side of India what will Little Donny and the MAGAt douches do in response?

This could get ugly if calmer heads do not prevail.

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