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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI says anti-Jewish hate crimes across US hit record high in 2024
[IsraelTimes] The 1,938 recorded incidents, which translates to more than five incidents per day, accounted for 16% of all hate crimes in the US

Hate crimes against Jews accounted for 16% of all reported hate crimes in the United States in 2024, and nearly 70% of religion-based hate crimes, according to FBI data.

Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 5.8% to a record 1,938 incidents, while the total number of hate crimes in the US during the year, 11,679, dropped slightly from 2023 (11,862), the report showed.

The number of antisemitic incidents translates to more than five anti-Jewish hate crimes per day. Among these incidents were terror attacks, assault, vandalism, harassment, burglary, false bomb threats, and more.

Crimes against Jews accounted for 69% of a total of 2,783 religiously motivated incidents, the data indicated. Jews represent approximately 2% of the US population.

Religiously motivated hate crime incidents rose 3.1% year-over-year, with incidents targeting Jews rising at a faster pace than the national average.

There were 2,237 Jewish victims of hate crimes and 1,043 known offenders, the report showed.

The rise "is consistent with ADL’s reporting and, more importantly, with the Jewish community’s current lived experience," said Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement about the report. "Our government and leaders must take these numbers seriously and enact adequate measures to protect all Americans from the scourge of hate crimes."

The data shows that leaders of every kind must confront antisemitism head-on, said AJC CEO Ted Deutch.

"Jews are being targeted not just out of hate, but because some wrongly believe that violence or intimidation is justified by global events," Deutch said. "With the added climate of rising polarization and fading trust in democracy, American Jews are facing a perfect storm of hate. The targeting of Jews is not a Jewish problem; it is a society-wide issue that demands a society-wide response."

Since many major cities do not report hate crimes, it is likely that the true state of antisemitism in the US likely much worse, the AJC noted.

The group targeted most often overall was Black Americans, with 3,004 hate crimes. Anti-LBGTQ+ hate crimes totaled 2,390. There were 228 anti-Moslem hate crimes recorded during the year.

Antisemitic attacks have skyrocketed in the US and around the world since Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023.

Earlier this year, the ADL counted a record 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024, including a 21% increase in assaults. Following the FBI report, ADL called on Congress to pass the bipartisan H.R. 2588 Improved Reporting to Prevent Hate Act, which would require law enforcement agencies to credibly report hate crimes to the FBI to be eligible for certain federal funding.

AJC’s State of Antisemitism in America 2024 Report, published in February, found that one-third of American Jews said they have been the personal target of antisemitism at least once during the year.

AJC called on Congress Tuesday to provide at least $500 million for the Department of Homeland Security-administered Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP), which provides funding for security for high-risk nonprofits, including synagogues, Jewish day schools, and Jewish community centers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 02:44 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
Some good news at last: In Big Tech there is a climate of fear among those working with diversity and inclusion
[PEQ42] In an interview with "Deu Tilt," UOL’s podcast for the humans behind the machines, Gabriela shared her concerns about changes in the corporate climate. She noted a resurgence of sexist attitudes that seemed to have been left in the past but are now reappearing more frequently in many companies.
I would totally post FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT memes here but I can't.
The most impactful thing for me was the closure of many external organizations, which had been working for years to support minorities and help include these people in the tech field. They shut down because companies withdrew resources, says Gabriela de Queiroz.

Despite this backdrop, Gabriela reports that her former team at Microsoft remained steadfast, adopting a more committed stance on diversity—an attitude not mirrored by other tech giants like Google, Meta, or Salesforce.

"Microsoft kept the programs going. They still send emails and stress how important [diversity] is, and that surprised me"

— Gabriela de Queiroz, former AI director at Microsoft

However, she points out that there is a climate of fear among those working with diversity and inclusion. Individuals who previously spoke openly about the issue are now more cautious, carefully choosing when and where to discuss it, fearful of retaliation.

Unfortunately, it will take years to return to what it was, Gabriela de Queiroz laments.

FULL OF NOISE AND MISLEADING WAVES
Artificial intelligence has become a top priority at Microsoft, sometimes at the expense of other areas like gaming, leading to mass layoffs. According to Gabriela, despite heavy investments, the AI landscape is still fraught with noise and waves that aren’t always what they seem.
It is so heartening to see these orgs shut down because we defunded USAID and now they don’t have money to hire rioters any more.

Thank GOD for President Trump!
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [84 views] Top|| File under:

#1  However, she points out that there is a climate of fear among those working with diversity and inclusion. Individuals who previously spoke openly about the issue are now more cautious, carefully choosing when and where to discuss it, fearful of retaliation.

Obviously, totally lacking self awareness of what they imposed upon others for years.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2025 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  However, she points out that there is a climate of fear among those working with diversity and inclusion. Individuals who previously spoke openly about the issue are now more cautious, carefully choosing when and where to discuss it, fearful of retaliation.

All is not lost. They still have their do nothing jobs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2025 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  My apologies to Elmomoter Mussolini9149 — the clever in-lines are his. I was rushed last night and neglected to fix that before publishing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 18:46 Comments || Top||


Antisemite Tucker Carlson's conspiracy theories have gone so far off the bend they're actually getting funny now: "Was the Boston Bomber an FBI agent?"
[YouTube] He's been going hot and heavy recently. He thinks the FBI bombed the Oklahoma City federal building, too. Look, that was where the raid on the lunatic Branch Davidians in Waco was commanded from, and when they lit themselves on fire rather than be taken alive, the white supremacist far right said the FBI did it and bombed the building a year to the day later in "retaliation".

The actual bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was executed. Waste of an FBI agent if you ask me.

At least this is keeping him from his usual schedule of stirring up Jew hate. He's gone off the deep end and this has gone from alarming, to disgusting, to baffling and now it's just getting plain funny!


Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [105 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let him rant on. The readership will ultimately decide the worth.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2025 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2025 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinda reminds me of Jerry Springer.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2025 15:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Teaming up with Candace, even?
Posted by: KBK || 08/06/2025 20:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Did he inherit this madness? Like they staged the holocaust for moral leverage? And resist it now only to entrap US?
Posted by: Alpha2c || 08/06/2025 23:41 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
‘Make BASIC Great Again': Hegseth looks to return drill sergeant ‘shark attacks' to basic training
wherein fresh military recruits entering basic training faced a loud and chaotic reception from shouting drill sergeants in an effort to instill discipline and see how recruits dealt with the pressure
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2025 10:58 || Comments || Link || [56 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I support this. The shark attack is the most stark and vivid stripping away of your previous civilian status and... you in the military now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/06/2025 15:56 Comments || Top||

#2 

https://youtu.be/5TNhS81w4bM?t=26
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/06/2025 18:14 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
64 planes against China
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of china3army

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] American fantasy reaches absurdity: 64 planes against China The American analytical center Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies has rolled out a strategic plan:

the US will be able to seize dominance in the skies over Taiwan, using only 32 F-35 fighters and 32 F-15EX to support strategic bombers.

The reality that the Pentagon ignores: China today has more than 1,668 fighters of the 4th and 5th generations, aerial reconnaissance and EW platforms, a full-fledged echeloned air defense system.

Any air base with F-15EX on takeoff is the first target for Chinese ballistic missiles "Dongfeng-17", "Dongfeng-21D" and hundreds of other "gifts". On Chinese forums, they are already laughing like the USA, it seems that they have confused China with Iran or with scenery for a Hollywood film. Taiwan theater is not the Middle East. There are no "safety zones" here.

There are "defeat zones". Answer from Beijing: If the USA really thinks that 64 planes will save Taiwan, we are only happy. Try it. We have long been waiting for an opportunity to start a dress rehearsal of the Great War in the Western part of the Pacific Ocean.

If the American military sends only 64 fighters to intervene in the situation in the Taiwan Strait, a real massacre awaits them with the Jian-20 and Jian-35 fighters.

In the face of the threat from the US Armed Forces, China needs to quickly produce the Hun-20 strategic bombers, new nuclear submarines and nuclear aircraft carriers. In addition, the number of nuclear warheads in the PRC should be increased first to 1,500, then to 2,000 in the second stage and to 3,000 in the third stage. Of these 3,000 units of nuclear weapons: 2,000 are strategic nuclear warheads, and 1,000 are tactical.

Even the Americans in the comments no longer believe in their strategies: American think tanks are led by idiots who think they can penetrate China's airspace with the help of 32 F-35s and 32 F-15s. The level of blindness in Washington regarding the capabilities of the PLA in the field of combating secrecy, electronic warfare, radio-electronic intelligence, data analysis and management is very high.

Iran has already "won". "Russia was torn to shreds." Now they will "win" China.

Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [124 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2025 2:22 Comments || Top||

#2  But did the Chinese pilots grow up driving Camaros, Corvettes, Mustangs and Porches?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/06/2025 14:25 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Video: Study finds AI models can unknowingly pass hidden biases and behaviors to each other
Gee, kinda like the media
[FoxNews] Artificial intelligence is getting smarter. But it may also be getting more dangerous. A new study reveals that AI models can secretly transmit subliminal traits to one another, even when the shared training data appears harmless. Researchers showed that AI systems can pass along behaviors like bias, ideology, or even dangerous suggestions. Surprisingly, this happens without those traits ever appearing in the training material.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [59 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Geth
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2025 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  That's how the whole "modeling" works.

The modeling reinforces the modeling because the modeling is what powers all the AI Answers which is channeled thru all the questions directed at AI by people.

The modeling reinforces itself by citing answers it has answered itself by following the modeling it was taught (garbage in); a sick matrix of woke.
Posted by: mossomo || 08/06/2025 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah, yes, the Echo Chamber in which all the lies reinforce each other.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/06/2025 14:32 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Burn Notice: Russia Hoax Secrets Found in FBI Burn Bags
[American Thinker] They didn’t just bury the truth. They sealed it in burn bags and locked it away inside FBI headquarters—marked for destruction before detection. But one man asked the right questions, found the right room, and uncovered the evidence before it went up in smoke.

That’s right. The most consequential political scandal of a generation—the Russia Hoax—consumed the Democrat party, Never Trumpers, and the legacy media. Its narrative became a creed for the political left, even after it was debunked and discredited.

Yet it lingers still, a scaffold upon which they project their hatred of all things Trump. And now we know: evidence that could unravel their narrative wasn’t just buried—it was bagged for destruction at FBI headquarters.

Draw your own conclusions. The picture paints itself.

For years, the question wasn’t just what they knew, but what they hid. Now we have the answer—more damning than imagined.

In three earlier articles, I exposed how the Obama administration manipulated assessments, sidelined dissenting analysts, and buried the Clinton campaign’s ties to Russian disinformation beneath layers of narrative management.

The last chapter traced the final bureaucratic deception that culminated in the January 6th intelligence report—how the doctored ICA, the suppression of Clinton-linked intel, and the media’s willing complicity helped cement a false consensus that never matched the underlying intelligence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2025 07:43 || Comments || Link || [71 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But one man asked the right questions, found the right room, and uncovered the evidence before it went up in smoke.

Evildoers would have destroyed the burn bags. Patriots within the Bureau likely insured their secret archival and discovery at a later date.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2025 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Insurance policy for some, revenge for others, and no one has mentioned LTG Flynn's observation about fingerprints yet?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/06/2025 13:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
'British Bomb': How India and Pakistan Made Peace at 2am
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Artemy Sharapov

[REGNUM] "He destroys my defense, the old Indian one - in an instant. It vaguely reminds me of the Indo-Pakistani incident." Vladimir Vysotsky's humorous song is dedicated to an amateur chess player, but the reference to the "incident" in South Asia was entirely appropriate. The Soviet audience understood the reference.

By 1973, when the artist wrote the song, there had been countless Indo-Pakistani incidents reported by the press. Three skirmishes escalated into full-fledged wars. The protracted conflict reminded me of itself this spring. But the "incident" that happened exactly 60 years ago, in August 1965, was perhaps the most telling.

The problem with the "Indo-Pakistani incidents" is that they are perceived as a purely regional problem that has no relation to the global agenda. Two countries, albeit large and possessing nuclear weapons, are sorting something out between themselves. But in reality, these "incidents" cannot be perceived outside the context of the confrontation between great powers.

The war of 1965 clearly demonstrated this. It was largely provoked by the American adventure in Vietnam. The key role in the conflict - as now - was played by Chinese participation. And the warring parties were reconciled by the USSR.

KASHMIR IS 'FREE' BUT OCCUPIED
It is impossible to talk about the Indo-Pakistani confrontation without mentioning the role of Britain, which, when leaving its former colonies in South Asia, planted a “bomb” that is still detonating. The civil disobedience campaign, launched in 1942 by the Indian National Congress (INC) led by Mahatma Gandhi, showed that the colonial administration could not keep the situation under control, the “British Raj” – “British rule” – would have to be dismantled.

A 380-million country could have appeared on the world map (British India included the modern Republic of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh with natural satellites in the form of Ceylon and Burma). Such a subcontinental state had a serious chance of becoming one of the Asian hegemons with global ambitions. And to become, in addition, a natural ally of the USSR, which positioned itself as the vanguard of the anti-colonialist struggle.

Joseph Stalin, although he scolded Gandhi and his successor as leader of the INC, Jawaharlal Nehru, for collusion with the British and local bourgeoisie, believed that independent India had a more serious chance than China of becoming a great power, “more or less developed from a capitalist perspective.”

Britain acted preemptively. The All-India Muslim League, created at the beginning of the 20th century, limited itself until 1940 to demanding autonomy for the Islamic community. But on the eve of the British departure, the League “restructured itself” and was no longer talking about the community, but about the Islamic nation, which needed its own state.

This plan was approved by the last viceroy of the "British Raj", Louis Mountbatten. According to the Indian Independence Act of June 1947, the country was divided into Hindu and Muslim states. The partition led to an "exchange of populations", which in reality resulted in 15 million refugees, Hindus and Muslims, and the death of 500,000 people killed in inter-communal clashes.

The British prescribed a separate order for 600 "native principalities." Their maharajas could choose which of the states to join, or remain in the same relations with London. One of the largest feudal possessions was the principality of Jammu and Kashmir, which became another "mine."

The principality was ruled by a Hindu dynasty, but most of its subjects were Muslim. Maharaja Hari Singh tried to maintain independence from both India and Pakistan. But the invasion of Pakistani tribal forces forced the ruler to seek help from Nehru and sign the Instrument of Accession. This led to the First Indo-Pakistani War (1947–1949).

As a result, the disputed land was divided along the ceasefire line. Pakistan declared the "state of Free Kashmir" in the occupied territories, but de facto annexed these lands. Both sides continued to lay claim to the entire region, which created constant tension and "fixated" the two new South Asian powers on each other. There could no longer be any talk of Greater India's hegemony in Asia.

FIELD MARSHAL DOESN'T WANT TO GO TO VIETNAM
The first war merely froze the status quo, and both sides sought to turn the game in their favor. In 1958, a military coup took place in Pakistan - the first, but not the last in the history of this country.

The new ruler, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, initially looked strictly to the United States. The Dwight Eisenhower administration viewed the regime as a bulwark against the spread of communism in Asia, and Ayub needed a powerful ally in the confrontation with India. The army of the Islamic Republic received American military equipment and weapons. Pakistan joined the pro-American military alliances CENTO and SEATO, which were directed against India, among other things.

But by the mid-1960s, Ayub Khan began to play a multi-vector game. The main event of the era, the Vietnam War, played a role here.

President Lyndon Johnson, under whom the United States sent troops to South Vietnam, sought to involve its allies in the campaign. Johnson pressed Mohammad Ayub Khan to send Pakistani troops to support the “American war effort.” But after several attempts to evade the proposal, the Pakistani dictator refused. Ayub Khan even told the American ambassador that he considered the Vietnam campaign a mistake.

Moreover, in the spring of 1965, after a visit to Moscow, Ayub Khan declared : Pakistan is correcting the mistakes of its one-sided orientation toward the United States and deepening relations with the Soviet Union and China. This "and" sounded disingenuous. The two communist powers were then at the peak of their confrontation, Moscow and Beijing had different plans in South Asia, and Pakistan had different views on interaction with the USSR and China.

NUCLEAR RACE
Until that moment, Soviet-Pakistani relations had been at their worst. Moscow had not forgotten that the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over the USSR in 1960, had taken off from Pakistan.

But the Islamic Republic seemed to be intent on getting away from the Americans. This would be a good option for all of South Asia: thanks to contacts with Moscow, Pakistan would have an opportunity for reconciliation with the USSR's partner, India.

The trouble was that Pakistan felt like a victorious country. Not long before, a small skirmish with the Indians in the border desert of Kutch was won outright.

Ayub Khan sought to assert his power by a 'cavalry charge' by resolving the Kashmir issue.

Moreover, India was locked in a full-scale conflict with China. The 1962 Sino-Indian border war in the Himalayas ended in a military draw, and Nehru was forced to keep large forces on the northern border. Mao Zedong benefited from Pakistan becoming a well-armed “enemy of my enemy.”

China, it seems, has become an example for Pakistan in acquiring nuclear weapons. In 1964, China joined the club of nuclear powers. But the main thing is that it was known that India had begun to develop its nuclear program in defiance of China. The statement made by Pakistani Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the eve of the war is well known :

" If India makes its own atomic bomb, then we will have to make our own, even if it means living on bread and water or even dying of hunger. The Christians have the bomb, the Jews have the bomb, and now the Hindus have the bomb. Why shouldn't the Muslims have their own?"

But the main thing was to strike before India got its own bomb. That is how the plan for the war in Kashmir was born, under the “English” name of “Gibraltar”. However, as the Pakistani military explained, this fortress in the south of Spain was remembered for another reason: in the early Middle Ages, it was the first territory in Europe captured by Muslims.

"PATTON CEMETERY"
On paper, the plan to invade Indian Kashmir looked promising. It was supposed to send in thousands of saboteurs who would start a Muslim uprising. It could then be presented as a struggle for local self-determination, rather than a conflict between states.

On August 5, 1965, thousands of Pakistani soldiers in civilian clothes entered Jammu and Kashmir. However, the plan did not work: no uprising occurred, and Indian troops were able to quickly locate and neutralize the saboteurs. In response, India launched a counteroffensive, capturing key Pakistani positions in Kashmir.

Abandoning the initial plan for combat, Pakistan launched a large-scale offensive. The objective was to take the area of the city of Aknoor (where, incidentally, fighting took place during the 2025 conflict) and cut the only road linking Kashmir to the rest of India.

The operation failed, which became one of the turning points of the war. Military operations continued throughout August.

In early September, the Indian Armed Forces began their offensive in the state of Punjab with the aim of drawing Pakistani troops away from Kashmir. On September 6, Indian troops crossed the border, launching an offensive on one of the country's largest cities, Lahore. This forced Pakistan to redeploy its main forces to a new section of the front.

To stop the breakthrough of Indian troops, the General Staff of the Pakistan Army transferred the 1st Armored Division, equipped with American M-48 Patton tanks, to Punjab.

The division's forces attempted a breakthrough in the Asal Uttar area. Indian troops had identified the threat in advance, so they flooded the surrounding fields, creating a swamp impassable for heavy tanks. Then older, but lighter and more reliable British Centurion tanks were thrown into the battle, which were able to inflict a crushing defeat on the Pakistani armored vehicles.

The site of the battle was nicknamed "Patton Cemetery."

PEACE AT THE GRAVE OF TAMERLANE
As the war dragged on, Pakistan's former main ally, the United States, withdrew. It wasn't just that American forces were tied down by the Vietnam operation. The Johnson administration made no secret of its displeasure that "Gibraltar" had been launched without consulting the American military.

Moreover, the US imposed an embargo on arms supplies to both warring parties, which had a more sensitive effect on Pakistan. If the striking force of its group consisted of Pattons and Shermans, then the Indians, in addition to the same Shermans and British Centurions, also had French AMX-13 light tanks and Soviet PT-76 amphibious vehicles.

Yes, China began large-scale support for Pakistan in 1965. Beijing then allocated about $60 million ($651 million in today's equivalent) for military needs and began direct deliveries of weapons, including tanks and aircraft. But this was later, as compensation for military losses in the August-September campaign.

"Here and now" Ayub Khan had to find a way out of the war. Especially since Nehru's successor, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, wanted the same. After all, the conflict had reached a stalemate: by mid-September, Pakistan had managed to occupy some areas of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and India had taken up positions in Pakistani Punjab. But then came the grueling positional battles.

And here the contacts of both sides with Moscow came in handy.

Immediately after the war began, the head of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin appealed to Shastri and Ayub Khan to show restraint and not to escalate the conflict, especially in the immediate vicinity of our borders. In September, "signals" were already sent to Moscow from Delhi and Rawalpindi (then the capital of Pakistan).

“Many hopes in Moscow were connected with the personal authority of Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, who had already distinguished himself from the Soviet leadership with his experience as a statesman and knowledge of international issues, and as a skilled negotiator,” recalled Foreign Ministry adviser Andrei Vavilov, a witness to the events, who was a young diplomat and translator from English, Hindi and Bengali during the period described.

General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev believed that Moscow should be the negotiating platform, but Kosygin insisted on Tashkent, remembering that both Ayub Khan and Shastri had visited the city earlier. "We were amazed by the thoroughness of the restoration work in the ancient mosques of Bukhara and Samarkand. Ayub Khan prayed in front of Tamerlane's tomb in my presence," Vavilov said.

In December 1965, the leaders of the warring countries agreed to attend the meeting without any conditions. In Tashkent, they were met by Kosygin, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky.

The tall and imposing Muhammad Ayub Khan and the short Lal Bahadur Shastri were pointedly cold and did not communicate with each other. Kosygin had to shuttle between the residences of the two guests. The efforts were not in vain - the "Tashkent process" turned out to be quite fast and tactically successful. Although it required efforts from the Soviet side.

"It was 15 minutes after midnight (already January 10) when Shastri confirmed to Kosygin that he agreed with the final text of the Declaration... Gromyko said that he had experienced many negotiations, but these were the most difficult. It was about two in the morning," Vavilov recalled.

The parties signed a declaration according to which the troops were withdrawn to their pre-war positions, after which a peaceful settlement was to begin.

Moscow stopped the full-scale conflict. But the Kashmir problem, "mined" in 1947 and still detonating, remained unresolved (and apparently not resolved). But our country's experience of participating as a peacemaker showed who is interested in the region not being shaken by further "incidents" involving armies with nuclear weapons.

Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [50 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan



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