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As fate would have it, Trump just announced a “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan. That’s welcome news — but no reassurance that the next crisis won’t be just as sudden… or just as explosive. This post remains essential reading because it explains how we got here, why the ceasefire won’t hold, and… Read more.
Or, perhaps more ominously, it’s aping the Hutu-Tutsi violence that played out in Rwanda. Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have been laying sovereign claims to Kashmir, respectively, since 1947. This has caused three major wars and numerous skirmishes between them, and spawned a spate of terrorist attacks by Kashmiri separatist groups. This is why so… Read more.
India and Pakistan have been fighting over Kashmir ever since the British partitioned India in 1947. In fact, not since the Peloponnesian Wars has one divided nation fought so many wars to so little effect. To be fair, each side insists it has only ever engaged in defensive cross-border skirmishes. And nothing lends more credence… Read more.
