US made a strategic blunder?

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1. He is being paid to say things, follow the investment and military technology flows because that’s just not all Trump

2. This is the first time I am seeing the outcome of the conflict interpreted in terms of what and how the US has positioned itself. Thank you for sharing. A week ago the eminent columnist had berated india for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory 

    https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/story/india-snatched-defeat-from-jaws-of-victory-brahma-chellaney-on-ceasefire-with-pak-2722860-2025-05-10

   How much of US hand there was in the backdoor negotiations and discussions, we will possibly never know. 

   Edit – typo

3. Just one?

4. There’s so much propaganda flying around right now that it’s hard to sift truth from lies. India supporters are claiming that US made the ceasefire happen and that it didn’t, that the conflict was a decisive victory for India and that it wasn’t. Pakistani supporters are claiming the same things.

   I’ve learned not to trust the armies of columnists and the even larger armies of Reddit commentators to give an accurate picture of what’s going on in the subcontinent. In the months ahead, I think further actions by both sides will give us a clearer picture of what they actually think of this resolution, much more so than what their supporters are saying right now.

5. It’s weird to see them saying Trump made a huge mistake when both India and Pakistan said they brokered the ceasefire on their own and the US had no influence on it. I guess this will be among the things that will become clearer in a few weeks, but still, I don’t really trust the US on this one tbh.

6. clearly, the author of this article is an indian who forgot that modi called usa during the battle, just one day after usa said that they WONT intervene..

   life goes on with another humiliation faced by india , after their wing commander got slapped by kashmiris in 2017 🙂
   #abhinandan

7. Hot take, but I think that Trump handled the conflict perfectly. An escalation in South Asia would have prompted China to interfere and potentially violate their “ceasefire” with India in the Himalayas. And a conflict in which India chokes off Pakistan’s access to waters from the Indus would have almost certainly resulted in a nuclear war.

   Hot take number 2: As much as Trump lies, India and Pakistan are both very much liar nations, despite what propaganda pieces and bot accounts from both sides might be telling you. They both have motive to lie – if the US had to step in to negotiate peace it means that both nations would have crumbled under the might of US soft power, and that sits very uneasily with the majority of citizens from either nation. I trust Trump over either of them.

8. Strange article, US have a vested interest in ending a conflict between 2 nuclear armed adversaries. To pin India’s less than stellar showing on Trump is a bit rich. Sure Indian lobby is a growing force in Washington but this reads like its lifted straight from pages of the Hindu. 

9. The fella who wrote this (BRAHMA CHELLANEY) is an Indian so take it with more than a pinch of salt.

10. Plural not singular

11. Why is there a question mark? Are you asking if they made a strategic blunder or are you saying they made a strategic blunder?

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