India starting to stand up for her own people - [PEACE]

[Zenaan Harkness]

Many like to take sides, express preferences, and judge as armchair
generals, especially Western gen-me sycophant snowflakes in glass
houses of relative luxury.

Some are under the "Christian dogma" thumb of "do not defend nor
stand up for yourself, your family, nor your principles", a sad and
lame twist on "turn the other cheek", instead cowtowing to
politically correct "dogma nartsees" with no insight into the tyranny
and slavery under their own feet.

India no more denies her right to stand up for her own people, having
faced down China in a months long border standoff, and the USA's
sanction threats for ponying up for Russia's S400s, doubled down with
French Rafaale fighters, and has in just recent years begun to
deliver some serious eye for an eye responses to her Muslim
neighbour's "message by mass murder" zealotry (see extract below).

India's message is being heard, the USA has backed down, and dignity
and partnerships are on the rise.

"Nice to see dignity on the rise."



  New India lauds Mahatma Gandhi on all but one important matter
  https://www.rt.com/op-ed/471539-india-modi-gandhi-pakistan/

  ... Gandhi was the “apostle” of peace and non-violence who offered
  the other cheek when slapped but the India of today would rather
  leave a black eye on its aggressor as it did on Pakistan with
  retaliatory heavy shelling in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) on
  Sunday, which left at least 6-10 Pakistani soldiers dead and blew
  up three terrorist camps into thin air.

  It was a grim fresh reminder to Pakistan that India has the
  doctrine of an eye-for-an-eye in its new rulebook and the “surgical
  strikes” and “Balakot airstrikes” which followed the terrorist
  attacks in Uri (2016) and Pulwama (2019) are the new philosophy and
  not an exception.

  India is still an adherent to “non-violence” and has an unbroken
  history of peaceful coexistence, never eyeing others’ territory but
  the painful lessons of the past demand it puts a premium on the
  integrity of its Union.

  India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval often reminds his
  audience that India was overrun by invaders despite being arguably
  the most advanced civilization of its time. It never protected its
  seas even though they straddle three of its four corners. It led to
  the servitude of almost a thousand years. It faced wars imposed by
  Pakistan on three of four occasions: 1947-48, 1965 and 1999. It
  didn't use 90,000 prisoners-of-war as a bargaining chip nor did it
  advance deep inside Pakistan after winning a conclusive war in 1971
  which led to the creation of Bangladesh.

  India was seen as the epitome of a “soft” nation as terrorists kept
  crossing the Line of Control (LoC) through Punjab and Jammu and
  Kashmir and cost tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers’ lives
  since 1990. The horrific attack in Mumbai, India's commercial
  capital, when terrorists from across the border sprayed machine
  guns on civilians on the streets and five-star hotels, known as
  26/11 in the nation's damaged psyche, evoked no retaliatory
  response from India. Worse, the very next year in 2009, the same
  United Progressive Alliance (UPA), returned to power without any
  retribution from its masses.

  All this has changed for good. India today is driven in its bid to
  modernize its army: It has only recently ceded its top spot to
  Saudi Arabia as the biggest arms importer of the world — the
  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reckons
  India accounted for 12 percent of the total global arms imports for
  the 2013-2017 period. It has lapped up Russia's S-400 advanced
  missile system defying the threat of sanctions from the United
  States. It has gone ahead with its purchase of France's Rafale
  fighter jets even though the move threatened to derail Indian Prime
  Minister Narendra Modi's bid for a second term on unfounded charges
  of corruption this year.

  India today is literally taking the fight into the enemy camp: It
  raked up the issue of Balochistan and its independence from
  Pakistan; it has vowed to wrest back the control of PoK for a
  unified Kashmir and its Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has already
  debunked the ‘No-First-Use’ nuclear doctrine. India stood up for
  its ally Bhutan and stared down China in a face-to-face standoff
  between the two armed forces in Doklam in 2017 which lasted months.

  ...