What does NRC think | Trumps lukewarm response to Escalation Kashmir is worrying

It is always fierce to see how close the mutual hatred is below the surface at India and Pakistan. « Jai Hind! »« Long live India! » It sounded on social media in India after the air strikes that made 31 fatalities in Pakistan on Wednesday. « They will pay for this, » was the reaction of the Pakistani Prime Minister. India: « If Pakistan responds, India will respond. »

Escalation is always lurking when the two countries are arguing to Kashmir, the beautiful but troubled former principality that since the independence of the British in 1947 is the most important point of contents. Time and again the world watches with tension whether the two core powers will manage. They have already waged three wars for Kashmir, is this the fourth?

And there is always Washington, which immediately urges publicly to restrain both parties and go hard to work behind the scenes at the diplomatic level to appease the situation.

This time things will go differently. « It’s a shame, » said President Trump when asked. « I hope it will stop very quickly. » A day later he added: « If there is something that I can do to help I will do that. » They are non -binding, easy comments.

And that while this is the most serious situation around Kashmir in at least twenty years. The immediate reason is an attack in April, in which Muslim militants shot 26 tourists in the Indian part of Kashmir. India is looking for the perpetrators in terrorist organizations that operate from Pakistan, including Lasjkar-e-Taïba, that already has many lagging has done in India. Pakistan denies involvement.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi left nine for retribution to attack Perform on targets in the part of Kashmir, controlled by Pakistan, but also in the important province of Punjab. Pakistan in turn claims to have brought down several combat aircraft and drones. Later there were drones that, according to Pakistan, flew over Lahore and Karachi, two million cities who have nothing to do with Kashmir. Land fights between soldiers along the file line in Kashmir have now cost at least twelve lives.

Every attacking American president knows that sooner or later he can have to deal with Kashmir. For Trump, this is the first international crisis that has been new since the start of his second term, an opportunity to show how he solves something like that. But his setup is like that hand-offthat India seems to have felt the space to hit back faster than usual after the attack.

That is worrying, not only with regard to Kruitvat Kashmir, but also with a view to all other dormant conflicts in the world. The way in which US President Russia and Israel let their way go in Ukraine and Gaza was already significant in this respect. Now there are two core powers opposite each other.

Other world leaders call Still up to calm. The British Prime Minister Starmer, the new German Chancellor Merz, UN leader Guterres, France, China and the European Union already did this. But they simply do not have the influence that the United States still have. The carelessness that Trump displays with regard to Kashmir shows once again that the world has become a more unsafe place under his leadership.

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