India Pakistan war?

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India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets...

Confirmed:
2 Indian Rafales (produced by France) shot down by PL-15 Air-to-Air missiles launched by Chengdu J-10 fighters (produced by China).
1 Su-30MKI (produced by Russia) by friendly fire.

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[mellie]

So you think this is yet another proxy- war ie west vrs China?

Quite likely actually.

Particularly in light of where the ammunitions coming from.

If not, then France and China need to take some degree of responsibility for the consequences of spreading arms to politically volatile nations.

Ironically, everyone bags Trump out, but who's the first guy they call to intervene when trouble starts?

Big Don!!

[mellie]

Perhaps China and Russia are trying to provoke Trump to retaliate, to justify the start of WW3?

It's certainly looking this way, but Trumps two steps ahead of them in their own game, taking the "peace maker" stance instead.

......... and now that there's an American Pope installed, this will help someway with peace keeping too I hope.

What are your thoughts Tld?

[mellie]

And..... it's also a great way to test new technology in someone else's country too.



Perhaps even a show of claws?

[tllwd]

So you think this is yet another proxy- war ie west vrs China?

Quite likely actually.

Particularly in light of where the ammunitions coming from.

If not, then France and China need to take some degree of responsibility for the consequences of spreading arms to politically volatile nations.

Ironically, everyone bags Trump out, but who's the first guy they call to intervene when trouble starts?

Big Don!!

IMHO it is regional conflict that has been going on since Islam arrived in the Indian subcontinent in the 7th century when the Arabs invaded and conquered Sindh and later arrived in Punjab and North India.
1947 Partition of British India made it worse.

China who has territorial disputes with India saw strategic opportunity and now helps Pakistan.
French see opportunity to make money and so does Russia plus India buys lots of Russian oil.
Trump has to be very careful there not to get embroiled in another conflict with no end in sight.

From our POV prolonged conflict between Asian giants take their focus from our direction but at the risk of big numbers of refugees coming here.

[mellie]

We don't need anymore refugees.

[tllwd]

Trump has to be very careful there not to get embroiled in another conflict with no end in sight.

Vance: India-Pakistan conflict is 'none of our business'

[Jasin]

I hope they show the nukes in action live on Foxtel

[Bobby]

Did Trump save all our lives?
Was the war going nuclear?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/10/asia ... latam-intl


Trump administration officials told CNN that, after receiving alarming intelligence on Friday
about the extent to which the conflict could escalate,
the State Department felt it had no choice but to play a greater role in talks between the two sides.