Will conflict escalate between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan?
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan are on the brink of direct conflict for the first time since 2019. This after India launched deadly strikes yesterday on Pakistan and Islamabad claimed to have downed several Indian warplanes. Wars are most typically fought over competing claims to the same territory or versions of the same story. Such conflicts illustrate the fact that being convinced something is true does not make it so. This fact is, of course, much more exacerbated when our opinions are wrong with regard to eternity.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May the 8th, 2025. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.0 | Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan are on the brink of direct conflict for the first time since 2019. |
| 0:24.9 | This, after India launched deadly strikes yesterday on Pakistan and Islamabad claimed to have down several Indian warplanes. |
| 0:33.9 | Here's the background on a story that threatens to escalate with consequences far beyond itself. |
| 0:39.3 | In 1947, Britain divided India, its former colony, into two countries. |
| 0:45.3 | The larger part retained its name and was made up mostly of Hindus. |
| 0:50.3 | The region to its northwest became Pakistan, an area slightly larger than Texas, with a Muslim majority. |
| 0:57.9 | However, the fate of Kashmir, a scenic valley in the Himalayas on the eastern border of Pakistan and northern border of India, is left undecided. |
| 1:07.2 | Both claimed the territory. |
| 1:08.7 | In January 1949, the first war over Kashmir ended after the United Nations brokered a ceasefire in which India occupied two-thirds of the area and Pakistan the other third. |
| 1:21.9 | War broke out again in 1965. An insurgency, it began in 1987, further flame tensions. Conflict erupted again in |
| 1:31.5 | 1999 and 2019. On April 22nd, militants shot and killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists, near |
| 1:42.0 | Pahalgam Kashmir. 17 others were wounded. Almost immediately, |
| 1:46.9 | Indian officials accused Pakistan of involvement and vowed swift punishment for their perpetrators. |
| 1:53.9 | Pakistan denied any involvement and promised to cooperate with international inquiries into the terrorist |
| 2:00.0 | attack. However, India struck nine sites yesterday in Pakistan and on Pakistan's side of Kashmir, |
| 2:07.1 | claiming that evidence pointed toward the clear involvement of Pakistani-based terrorists in the April attack. |
| 2:14.1 | Pakistan called the strikes an unprovoked and blatant act of war and said they would not go |
| 2:20.6 | unanswered. India then said that if Pakistan responds, India will respond. Such retaliations could lead to |
| 2:28.4 | what security scholars call inadvertent escalation, a frightening possibility between two nuclear powers engaged in, quote, |
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