Originally posted by: Autumn_Rose
India can easily be Ukraine tomorrow.
Don't think so- a full fledged war against a country with nuclear weapons is guaranteed mutual destruction, especially if the country being attacked has no qualms in using those.
The threat of nukes from Russia is probably what is keeping Europe and the US from coming to Ukraine's aid here.
Small skirmishes restricted to border areas, or perhaps even simultaneous invasion on both borders is very much possible in India's case (especially to areas that the other side claims, like Arunachal for China), but not further IMO- the nukes act as a deterrent. It kinda becomes- if we go down, we take you down with us.
But the unfriendly neighbour theory is precisely why India has to be neutral with Russia. If we go anti-Russia, there's pretty much no one left in Asia with us. The CIS countries will follow Russia.
If Ukraine had nukes, pretty sure Russia wouldn't be invading the whole country. Maybe the eastern parts (Donetsk, Luhansk and those areas that predominantly speak Russian), but not Kyiv and the other parts.
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