Posted on 11/14/2008 10:48:43 AM PST by PeteePie
Thats the wrong question to ask. The right question is “why does India NOT need such a sophisticated boat?”
That’s why I come to the great minds of Free Republic!
There isnt much choice there. India is just buying whats available. America would never sell nuke subs to India. Russia is the only country that would.
“India is building up their Navy. They’ve had several large joint naval exercises with the USN. A sophisticated sub fits”
I wonder which one of the first Indian crewmen aboard will be CIA?
This means that the Russians were saved from killing more Indians than either General Custer OR Union Carbide...
Wink!
In case 0bama does attack Pakistan unilaterally and the Pakis decide it's their last chance to go nuclear on India?
China.
We will more likely see a gradual warming of ties between India and Pakistan when the moderate middle class especially in the coastal province of Sindh will get tired of their rabble-rousing Punjabi and Pashtun Islamist countrymen who want to keep them in the stoneage that Pakistan resembles.
America going to war with Pakistan’s Islamic establishment is actually going to be good for Pakistani-Indian relationship. China can be a military ally to Pakistan but there is no other country that is culturally and ethnically more similar to Pakistan than its mother-ship, India.
You are right of course. I was being a little facetious playing on the fact that India is an ally and 0bama has the common sense of hyena in heat.
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