Public sentiment displays a significant inclination towards strong military responses against Pakistan, reflecting national pride in India's military capabilities. However, there are also calls for peaceful dialogue and critiques of political rhetoric surrounding military actions, indicating a split opinion where some advocate for caution and rationality amidst escalating tensions.

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In before the influx of deluded Redditors calling this report Pakistani propaganda.

ratbearpig

&gt;New Delhi has begun to acknowledge the loss of several fighter jets during 'Operation Sindoor.' Military experts suggest that at least one Rafale may be among the destroyed aircraft. This would mark the first loss in combat for the French aircraft.

Chadrasekar

Failed false flag, failed retaliation, failed media censorship. What else can someone expect from India.

NecroRayz733

The primary objective of the Air Force is to defend critical Military Air Installations from enemy Air Strikes where Pakistan failed absolutely and getting airbases bombed and not able to stop us instead running to America for a ceasefire I see it as a desparate propoganda.
There was no war here it was just a skirmish.
Looks like these days Westerners have got similar IQs as Pakistanis no wonder Indians and Chinese are replacing them in Tech Jobs . Do you think it is because of ultra processed foods?

FormalBid3291

Hopefully, India fixes it before the next terrorist attack on its soil...

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More than the aircraft, it seems ir shows great weakness and arrogance from India.

Not conducting SEAD, not using your own air to air weapons

India fought COIN against a modern army and paid the price until it decided that MAYBE, Rafales could do more than bombing terrorists and actually fought back pakistan

PhoenixKingMalekith

India false flagged attacked Pakistan, and failed miserably.  That's what happened.  US Fighters they were using we like paper airplanes against the Chinese jets Pakistan is flying.  Prepare for even more anti-China propaganda.

Fantastic-Wasabi7501

India is no ally with the US. India tries to be on decent terms with everyone but friendly with no one. I think the Chinese aggression against India can be turned into making India a future ally, but they are too close to Russia for any meaningful cooperation at the moment. 

Monte_Cristos_Count

Let me start with the broader foreign relation strategy I would employ:

The big fish / small fish dynamic and trade in soft power is giving economic aid &amp; protection in exchange for market access alignment in foreign affairs with smaller countries.

This exchange is no longer working with Europe. Some of that is them catching up to us economically after WW2, some of it is the Cold War that prompted it being over for 30 years, and some of it is complacency and ungratefulness on their end.

We should simply pull back, and let them figure out how do deal with Russia and unstable middle eastern / African countries on their border.

That’s not hostility, just that we should simply decouple ourselves from it and treat them as a normal friendly entity.

So where should the U.S. look toward for that soft power influence / alignment?

Primarily the Americas, secondarily the democracies of East Asia (like the Philippines), and thirdly India.

All of these nations are ones we want to be closer with economically, but at the same time outsourcing / immigration is a tension - that requires a lot more tact and threading a delicate needle than Trump tends to be capable of.

With the developing world our immigration policies need to be super clear:

* We need to stop taking in so many H1B’s. 
* Our policy should be to take in *exceptional* talent (long term) only, otherwise root immigration quotes by country on the basis of parity. Ie, if 500k Americans move to India we should let 500k Indians in.
* We need to make it *easier* to come here to do guest work, or visit as a tourist / business meeting - with significantly higher penalties for non-compliance.

For tariffs:
* We should tariff on the principal of equal rates - but those rates must account for variance in labor + environmental law. As in, cool to compete with us on merit, not cool to do it by exploitative labor and environmentally destructive policies.

For Russian sanctions:

* I don’t care about this really; I wouldn’t want it to fracture our alliance with India. Europe needs to be the driver here, not us.

WRT Pakistan:

* Pakistan is a borderline rouge state that supports terror in India and Israel by proxy via loose hush hush Iran alliances.
* I’m for outreach to Pakistan, but the Abraham accords is the model here. If we ever have to pick between Israel, India, and Pakistan it goes in that order.

Kman17

If the US wants to distance itself from China it needs India.

thoughtsnquestions

India needs treated like a pariah and punished until they get out of bed with Russia.

Tariffs, immigration bans, taxes in remittances, bans on outsourcing there, everything.

poop_report

Honda-Activa-125

Indian Army Chief shouldn't be doing this kind of talking, we have our ministers to do that job of issuing statements or threats. Do we hear such things from professional Army chiefs from the developed world? They have a dignity to protect. And also cannot issue such statements as they are not in a, position to do so. That's not in their brief as they do not have the right to wage wars or carry on the threats without the elected government's explicit approval. 

Sadly our defense guys are getting political these days or are being politicized like our rabid neighbor.

siranirudh

One state will be welcoming him as a new Governor soon after retirement.

genome_walker

Extremely odd for the army chief now,and the defence chief yesterday and the news also covering some comments by vladimir putin on Modi's humiliation and finance minister on Indians economic resilience. 

Something is cooking in the background.

lukup

This is unbecoming of a COAS to make such comments. Indian Army is under civilian control.

krakends

Ridiculous and dangerous rhetoric. Does the army chief want Delhi and other major cities to remain part of the globe, considering Pakistan has nuclear capabilities and not even firm policies on their use?

This is the danger of the army being politicized. Enough, we have to coexist with Pakistan whether we like it or not. The best way to get ahead of them is to focus on ourselves and become such an economic powerhouse that they have to choose peace for their own good.

fcuk_the_king

will_kill_kshitij

The political posturing by military leadership is getting out of hand. BJ is encouraging and facilitating it for short term political gain, but in the long run, we know this leads to military dictatorships. Just look around our neighbourhood and the world. 


Unless the sangh parivar is removed from power, the military leadership penalised for interfering in politics, and reminded that they are subservient to the civilian leadership, it's only a matter of when, not if. 

charavaka

I'm imagining a world without Pakistan and I'm loving it!

Busy_Acanthaceae_296

Chest thumping and threats are not helpful, from both sides. It would take more courage and wisdom to pursue sustainable peace. Period

Positive-Ad1859

India should be careful though, and let's not forget how Modi abused "Operation Sindoor" as means to promote himself - see the ads he had his minions place on planes and trains (or those LCD screens etc...). But the careful part refers here to China being silly and supporting Pakistan. China is always behaving oddly with regard to India. Many years ago, India tried to be friendlier. China "awarded" this in 1962 by seizing territory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

There is just no way to trust China. It also pursues an imperialistic agenda - perhaps right now not so much with regard to seizing more land, but definitely with regard to more influence, more economy etc...

I think we should consider how Pakistan is creating an Islamic NATO, especially with oil producing countries before giving threats.

snzimash

Pakistani ain't no weak like you guys think . Pakistan is a nuclear power . I think the best we can do is to focus on ourselves and get ahead of them in every aspect

Ok-Piece5740

This is the problem with mixing religion with national defense

bhodrolok

Hhahahahhaha news coming out Pakistan is taking control of Chabahar port 🤣🤣 India invested billions into it and got spanked by the US only to have Pakistan and Iran take control. It feels Pakistan can do nothing wrong at this point in USA’s eyes. Pre-1990s isolation coming on boyyyyyyssss. Letss ggooooooo.

kaleidoskopee

Interesting-Pipe-30

I think with the Rhetoric being played by the Pakistani side it's not wrong to be aggressive against Pakistan. It is an absolute fact that Pakistan has been doing these heinous terrorist attacks in India. And killing innocent people. India has never been the aggressor in this conflict , however Pakistan even after being a clear instigator tries to act coy and docile. As such the men in uniform who have to deal with this treacherous behaviour on a daily basis obviously have the right to lash out at times.

TeamAdept4276

&gt;[Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/06/pakistan-india-attacks-kashmir-live-updates)

&gt;[Heavy exchange of artillery fire takes place at LoC in Jammu and Kashmir](https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/heavy-exchange-of-artillery-fire-takes-place-at-loc-in-jammu-and-kashmir20250507035451/)

BookmarksBrother

Can't wait for this to spill out onto British streets.

Touched_By_SuperHans

Are we just calling wars military operations now?

I think war sounded a little better to be honest.

WXLDE

Canada is going to have some fun in the streets.

drax2024

Omg quickly, I have to form an opinion about this conflict based on 5 minutes research

rodot2005

aza---

Workingforaliving91

Bandoolou

They've had this kind of exchange before and it's not gone anywhere. This is probably performative posturing rather than a serious escalation at this stage. Think Iran's major drone strike on two Israeli barns for their grand revenge.

Pray for Leicester if it does really escalate though.

Long-Maize-9305

Worldly_Table_5092

When did India and pakistan become part of Europe?

lostandfawnd

It says a lot about the times we live in when this doesn't really surprise and shock me anymore

Eternity13_12

Here we go...

Is this the official kickoff date?

Minimum_Glove351

Time for the EU commission to spend some more money on taking care of other people’s problems instead of our own!

zzgamma

Darkgreenbirdofprey

Let's wait for the peaceful protests in our cities claiming targeting children and hospitals

Wouldn’t have happened under Trump

Oh wait

mustardnight

Lol this is one of those Spider-Man thing.. who’s-who

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Ape_rsv4_rf

Otherwise-Bid621

Three years ago, Pakistan wanted to borrow money from China for its economic recovery, what happened?

Sparklymon

Have they still shut off part of the river?
That could definitely escalate.

When tensions flared up some 20yrs ago
I recall reading that Pakistan was all ready ro use their nukes.

Aggravating-Bottle78

Missing_Logic

Pre-game in US interest to surround China’s energy and trade routes.

ninjastylle

Wouldn’t have happened on Bidens watch.

Abrubt-Change-8040

Anyone notice how it's always a bunch of goobers with "random word + random word + 4 numbers" leaving rage bait comments?

S8nsPotato

Melbourne too.

It will be like f$%king Mario cart with all the uber drivers

[sorry, not sorry](https://youtu.be/ukznXQ3MgN0?si=x3TANGwHU2XNQ3TP)

EvilWaterman

This was bad for future French and European weapons exports to SE Asia as at least 2 Rafles were shot down by J-10’s.  And the J-10 was considered a second tier export fighter from China.  

skunimatrix

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SunderedValley

for those who are in the uk lamenting this, you technically brought this on yourself. india is a commonwealth country

Launching against “Pakistan” is a bit of a stretch. Launched against terrorists that operate on Pakistani soil, yes.

The only reason it’s turning into this is because on both sides the governments like to spin stories and myths for the retards that form a majority of their respective countries and loot them them dry while also diverting their attention from what’s really important - education and development

andhlms

There’s nobody on the world stage anymore who can calm these two down.

Shawn_The_Sheep777

Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi has issued a stern warning to Pakistan following Operation Sindoor, asserting that it was merely a precursor to stronger actions if necessary. He emphasized India's commitment to addressing terrorism and its backers.

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