They are being very generous in their statements. We have utterly coddled Pakistan way beyond anything warranted by Pakistan's value as a platform to fight the War. If anything, Pakistan would have been far more useful under the combined Indo-American boot, occupied and filled to the brim with combined forces. The forces would then fan out into Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos, and perhaps, even part of Russia and China, in order to proactively contain the Trans-Asian Axis prior to the Axis getting the first shot. My plan is precisely the sort of plan that might have prevented WW-II, had, for example, the French and British absolutely swarmed the Rhineland in 1936. Similarly, if we swarm the core of the formative (WW-III) Axis now, we can, by prosecuting WW-III-lite, prevent WW-III-grand.
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