Chapter 1297 Oil Embargo

“India deserves a little lesson too.” Aiden didn’t know whether to say that the United States supported Pakistan or thought that India had treated Britain’s mediation as a fart this time, anyway, it was a nagging feeling, “However, Britain’s interests are large in India, will our interests be damaged because of this.”

“Shouldn’t be, with the configuration of Indo-Pakistan, a high intensity war won’t last too long, no longer than the war in the Himalayas two years ago.” Alan Wilson replied in a tone of certainty.

In peacetime countries do not stockpile too many weapons and ammunition in a state of war, the real allies of the United States and the Soviet Union are of course the exception, are seriously preparing for a world war. However, India and Pakistan are not core members of the two military blocs, but are on the fringes.

Not to mention the ever-present, top-heavy configuration of the Indian army with more tanks than armored vehicles and more armored vehicles than artillery.

This is simply not a configuration that is ready for large-scale war. This kind of ability India in fact has never had, India-Pakistan war not only long time can not be, with the improvement of all kinds of weapons, but instead the war time will become shorter and shorter.

The first Indo-Pakistani war was the longest, and since then the time has been shorter than once, for many countries, large-scale war can not afford to fight. This is still with suitable for large-scale war with the Soviet-style weapons, change to use the American-style weapons of the country, even more can not top the war consumption.

But Allen Wilson also said in front of Aiden, high-intensity war, with the national strength of India and Pakistan, to support a month or two of high-intensity war is still doable.

“Well, it seems that India has really grown up. Even our mediation can be ignored, maybe India thinks that no one in this world can mediate India.” Aiden said with a cold face.

Alan Wilson nodded with a face of approval, and in his heart, he did not think so, of course there are countries that can mediate, a certain big country that stepped on India’s dignity under its feet two years ago is not it.

Now put the word out that a certain big country wants to intervene in the war, India guarantees that it will consider very seriously, is not to stop the war.

There are many countries in this world that care about a certain great power, but in its history since the beginning of New China, India is surely the earliest of the lot to care. Especially after losing a war once, that concern overflowed.

The most favorite mention of a certain big country on the oil pipe is the Indians, no matter what the news, military, politics, livelihood, economy, as long as this news exists, enthusiastic Indian netizens will appear.

Alan Wilson is not looking down on India, after all, there are not many people in this world who can fight with the poor monk. India is still very strong, it is just a little bit dewy in comparison with a certain big country.

“You said so to the Prime Minister?” Not long after leaving the Prime Minister’s office, Makins, the Permanent Undersecretary of Defense, came to the door, signs of a large-scale war in a hotspot are surely related to the scope of the Ministry of Defense, and he had just responded to the Defense Minister’s near-identical question, “Isn’t it adding fuel to the fire for the Indians to see what happens to their neighbors to the north now.”

“So while I thought that, I didn’t say it.” Alan Wilson shrugged and said there was no suggestion of borrowing a major power for offshore balancing. In fact it couldn’t be borrowed.

“Then again, the image you see on the news all the time is that of poverty and population explosion.” Makins referred to the image of a certain large country being able to make the news, stating that he didn’t look favorably on the country’s future either, “They’re struggling to feed themselves, and yet they have the time to support others?”

“I don’t agree with you, but I do recognize that overpopulation isn’t all good. If we were to have a population of 600 million, what with the United States and the Soviet Union, we could beat them up and call them father. For the Soviet Union to have a population of six hundred million, we could all consider going into exile in Australia.” Alan Wilson spoke up, “There are two sides to the story, and it’s too early to draw any conclusions.”

Even without mentioning the demographic factor, Allen Wilson believes that just the local conditions, the United States is not fully dominant, how China and the United States is also four or six. East Asia is the world’s largest area covered by rain and heat at the same time, of course, the United States is also, but the area covered is not as large as East Asia.

Not to mention the black soil that both countries have, and not to mention the cliché that North America does not have north-south mountain ranges to isolate the cold air from the south, in fact, the water resources of the United States is inferior to that of a major country. Don’t look at a certain big country every day clamoring that they are short of water, there are plenty of places in the world that are short of water, and India’s water shortage is even worse than that of a certain big country.

Take out the factor of black soil and precipitation, in other land, a large country’s land is better than the United States of America’s land quality, the disadvantage is that the plains area is not as large as the United States. It is no exaggeration to say that a certain large country is arguably the best livable place in the Old World. It’s comparable to the US, not to mention India.

When it comes to per capita of anything, that’s not so much the case; a certain large country is among the top in the world in terms of all kinds of resources, but when divided by its population, it doesn’t look good.

The Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Undersecretary of Defense both endorsed the point that the Indo-Pakistani situation should be kept in perspective, and a little consensus followed that the Portuguese should be asked what they think. Are they prepared to take advantage of the fire or wait and see what happens. The Portuguese can choose whatever they want, and the UK is not feuding with India, but just inquiring from a neutral point of view.

India mobilized heavy military movement is not hidden from the United States, Allen Wilson after communication with Washington, said the British mediation is mediated a lonely.

Washington, on the other hand, was not at all surprised, saying that the United States had already sent people to activate two Pakistani radar stations close to India in preparation for the war.

“America is still powerful.” Alan Wilson remembers that this Indo-Pakistani war is among the several Indo-Pakistani wars, Pakistan did not suffer losses, but also take advantage of the war.

But even so, he did not feel that Pakistan could fight India for a long time, the distance between West and East Pakistan was too far, and the unfair trade of East Pakistan exporting and West Pakistan importing had not changed at all. Sooner or later, India can wait until the opportunity to dismantle Pakistan’s east-west pincer pattern.

Taking the intelligence sent from Washington, Allen Wilson informed Aiden of the US support for Pakistan, “Prime Minister, it’s like it was predicted to you that the US would side with Pakistan. I think this war is still balanced, both sides may not achieve their goals.”

“So far, India seems to be a bit more proactive.” Aiden looked at the intelligence about the Indo-Pakistani war, then looked at Alan Wilson, “What about Marshal Mountbatten, he was the last Viceroy of India, surely he will have his own opinion about this war.”

“The Marshal has gone to Perth.” Alan Wilson decisively rebuffed Aiden’s desire to make use of old things, stating that this kind of thing did not require Marshal Mountbatten’s personal attention.

Ancient and modern conquests, the pig’s tactics have been successfully used again and again for people, in the event of an attack, they snuggle their asses against the wall, so that you can’t grab their tails, and finally they can’t do anything about it, so they can’t get their sharp tusks to give you a mouthful of them, and they won’t let go of their bites. This war will not exceed the level of Xuzhou suppression, Allen Wilson million sure.

One of the six Indian divisions sent to the front by India, one of the armored divisions, was equipped with British-built Victory tanks, the first time the Victory tanks had faced actual combat.

The main place of contention between India and Pakistan remains Kashmir, and the fight for Kashmir also requires the use of tanks? India even to the Himalayas to transfer troops also use tanks it, the Indians are so confident, regardless of the local terrain, since the weapons bought over, to be used.

The Indians attacked the Pakistani army with two divisions on the western side of the ceasefire line, south of the Uri River, and captured three posts of the Pakistani border guards. Fierce tank battles erupted between the two sides around Chamubu.

I don’t know if it was the war two years ago that really inspired the Pakistani army, but Pakistan, which suffered losses in the first Indo-Pakistani war, was extraordinarily resilient this time around, and performed much better than it did more than a decade ago. The large-scale fighting between India and Pakistan became an international hotspot no less than the Vietnam War.

From the very beginning, this war has attracted international attention, especially from the world of the religion of peace, and on the first day of the war, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran expressed their indignation at India’s aggression against Pakistan. This indignation certainly did not sway the vocal powers.

In India’s view, these countries could not threaten India, but the camp of pacifist nations opposed to India continued to grow as the war progressed. And expressing the need for united action against India in the preservation of the unity of the pacifist world, this threat was issued in solidarity with Pakistan to get India to stop the war.

Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Kuwait, and the newly independent Yemen also joined in the diatribe, and finally, under the joint appeal of the King of Iraq and Egypt, the pacifist world, which included the above countries, prepared to convene an international conference in Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, to boycott India, and even Iran sent people to participate in this conference.

The pacifist world is united, even in the face of Israel, the pacifist world is not so united, at least Iran is not very hostile to Israel.

While the Baghdad conference was going on, the Pak Army, while attacking Chamub, also organized and strengthened its forces to launch a massive offensive at Madara, north of Chamub. The Indian infantry made heavy counter-attacks, which gradually became untenable under the powerful artillery bombardment of the PA.

The PA advanced to a point just 300 yards from the Indian High Command at Madala and met a desperate resistance from the Indians who had no way to retreat.

“The Indians must be made to understand that they cannot do this to our brother country.” King Faisal II of Iraq, thirty years old and completely different from his youthful days studying in London, waved his fist to get the attention of the representatives of the countries, “I hereby issue an initiative for all the countries present here to take out a sincere support for our Pakistani brothers and launch an oil embargo against India. Don’t let even a single barrel of our oil flow into India.”

“Kuwait agrees ……” “Oman agrees, Jordan agrees, Libya agrees, Sudan agrees, Yemen agrees, Syria agrees …… “The united world of the Religion of Peace appeared before the world after this meeting and the participating countries unanimously decided to launch an oil embargo against India.