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Why would they announce that? What strategy is forwarded by announcing it?
by dfilppi 8y ago
Why would they announce that? What strategy is forwarded by announcing it?
- NTDF9 8y agoThe announcement is done to achieve two things: 1. Posture to their own populace that they're not backing down (thus winning political scores) 2. Show to the rest of the world that they are leadership to reckon with, that they don't back down cowardly. Imagine two high-school teens with some social status fighting on the playground. They will not back off because of social status reasons. Only here, the teens have nukes.
- pknerd 8y agoI am a Pakistani and I do agree with you here. But we have left no choice either. Modi wants to use jingoism to win elections
- godelmachine 8y agoTo stop cross border terrorism state sponsored by Pakistan and proxy war. We Indian's are fed up of these! Paki's don't let us live in peace.
- dang 8y agoIf you continue to do nationalistic flamewar on HN we will ban you. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pknerd 8y agoBecause a day earlier India announced about a fake surgical strike where their pilots dropped payload and killed a few trees and said they killed terrorists