vyomvir wrote:I sense de escalation and the usual perception optics saga, do you guys feel the same?
I don't think so. It would be a pity if this leads to deescalation.
Because then this would be the new normal: We attack the terrorist camps in PoJK or Pakistan proper and they can attack our military assets...and we will call it quits.
Our briefing after the strikes were clear: that ours was a pre-emptive non-military strike on terrorist targets.
Now, theirs has been an attempted targeting of a Brigade HQ > A military target. They escalated. And this is also the sum of the briefing by the MEA this afternoon.
The fact that an AVM was present at the MEA briefing: my guess is that the signaling is that it is now being handed over to the military and future briefings will be by the armed forces reps.