You do know that the Soviets had a submarine task force trailing the Enterprise during the time the Carrier task force was in the Bay of Bengal right? An attack by the US would have resulted in apocalypse as the Soviets would have gotten involved. Why do you think China never got involved, though its ally was being split into two?
Nixon was just an egomaniac who couldn’t take the fact that Gandhi didnt give two hoots about what he thought of the status-quo/balance of power etc etc between India & Pakistan.
Nope, didn’t know that.
In that case, it would have ended far worse than Vietnam!