Cyrano wrote:Imran is paying for the Russian gas pipeline idea he brought up. That kind of collaboration can eventually lead to a Russia-India pipeline. Taliban have already opened an office in Russia.
The west's leverage on energy hungry India is at best an increasingly unreliable Middle East. If a Ru-Ind pipeline becomes a reality India will forever escape their grip.
The IPI, TAPI were all failures for a simple reason - Pakistan.
The NaMo govt has cultivated the ME and has pulled it out of the Baki embrace. There is no point in jumping from their grip to Baki grip - I mean, seriously take a look at how Europe is having issues with Russian pipeline, do you think we need the same problem with Bakis who can turn off the tap anytime (or threaten to) and destroy the economy ?
Why are you proposing that we shoot ourselves in the foot ?
Actually, I want a gas pipeline from Russia to Pakistan via Afghanistan. A couple of sharp diplomats and some special forces in Afghanistan would mean that we can remote control their economy. And a pipeline would mean guaranteed minimum sales at a negotiated price for a large number of years. Awesome.
America can buy out the entire paki parliament and army, they're pretty cheap anyway. If not sending Dummy to meet Benazir option is always avl to the Regime Changer.
Whoever comes next will be expected to stir up a conflict with India which will not only weaken us militarily even if we win, it will present lots of opportunities to do a Bucha on us and sanction us to stone age.
An idea I gave up - "A stable, peaceful Pakistan is in India's interest" may come back to haunt me.
There is no proof that the very existence of Pakistan is in our interest. Second, Pakistan is already 'peaceful' (pun intended)

. And they haven't chosen to be stable and peaceful against us, so the classic definition of insanity comes to mind - doing the same things over and over and expecting different results.