Prem Kumar wrote:The "diplomats can avert war & commander level talks can de-escalate" thinking still seems to predominate, though we are vastly more aggressive than we ever were under Congress. This mindset guides war planning, weapons procurement etc. I can understand a holding-pattern while we aggressively re-arm, but the urgency is present in only some areas (border infra) & not in others (arms stockpiling)
Considerable public pressure is important for the GOI to know that pro-active aggression and land-grabbing is acceptable & even desirable to the populace
Prem Kumar ji,
There is a "time and place" imperative that is weighing on us because of the global situation. India is under attack from various quarters.
galwan was done under cover of the pandemic and this time xi has stocked up on oil, food grains and some other industrial raw materials and goods (a lot of the grain purchased from India under various pretexts)
xi is pushing hard at this time because of increasingly escalating internal dissensions and a rapidly rising discontent among the mango cheeni.
He knows that India has pissed off the west due to her stance on russia and ukr and xi is hoping to take advantage of that rift to redraw borders in ladakh, as well as, tawang with his salami slicing tactics.
just like the paki crore kammandus do, he needs to divert attention in his own country and also unite the unwashed bat eating crowds to support the war efforts and the easiest method to divert and refocus the cheeni public attention is to attack India and claim that India attacked them
The mount road mao (The Hindu paper) and the rest of the commie propaganda machinery in India is also starting to push this cheeni narrative