Posted on 04/08/2014 11:15:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to win India's parliamentary elections, the first round of which began on Monday. India is the largest democracy in the world, and so national elections are helpd in separate regions over a five-week period.
Self-described Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) Narendra Modi is the head of BJP, and he's promising a substantially more aggressive foreign policy for India, including a promise to get tougher in territorial disputes with China. He's the "hope and change" candidate for this election, and he's expected to become the next prime minister.
Modi is also promising to review India's "no first use" policy for nuclear weapons. The no first use policy was adopted with reference to India's arch-enemy Pakistan, and the previous administration has promised that it will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in a war. However, Pakistan does NOT have a no first use policy, so Modi is promising to review India's.
India's last generational crisis war was the war between Hindus and Muslims that followed the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent and the creation of the states of Pakistan and India in 1947. This action precipitated among the worst and bloodiest wars of the 20th century, as Hindus from the new Pakistan state migrated to the India side of the partition and Muslims from the India side migrated to Pakistan, butchering and slaughtering each other along the way....
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2DV, you ever get that 1930’s feeling... like something big and ugly is about to happen?
Yes, but there were no nuclear or thermonuclear weapons back then.
“He’s the hope and change candidate”
Where have I heard that before?
India should have attacked Pakistan after the Mumbai terrorist slaughter. Sinking about half the Pak navy would have been appropriate for that attack from the sea.
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