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Originally Posted by Deltacamelately
Agreed..but he couldn't stop the Enterprise from entering Bay of Bengal, an unneccassary scar on the Indian psyche that pushed them closer to the Soviet Bloc, making them suspicious of even the noblest US moves.
Whenever I have said this, Col Sir always had a one liner for me....
"Geo-Politics". Period  |
At the time, it seemed to the Nixon Administration that the invasion of East Pakistan was an attempt to severly cripple Pakistan- a critical US ally in South Asia at the time- or a prelude to a final showdown to destabilize all of West Pakistan with Soviet support.
At the time, the Nixon Administration believed that if Pakistan went down the drain with the US standing by it would affect the rapprochement with China by demonstrating to Mao that in moments of crisis, especially with the Soviet Union or Soviet aligned (as it seemd) India, that the US could not be depended upon to fulfill its obligations to its allies.