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I have not come across an official confirmation but based on all the money Pakistan is receiving from USA, it is highly likely that Pakistan will be used as a launchpad by USA against Iran. Thus, I would not be surprised if USA has started moving man and material to Pakistan. It is quite possible that some US assets were hit by Indian Air Force during Operation Sindhoor; I do not know. Eventually we will know. One thing is for sure, USA was not just hoping, it was casually sure that India would get hit by at least one Pakistanese nuclear bomb. USA did not expect that India would start bombing Pakistanese nuclear facilities. On the contrary, USA was expecting to put pressure on India using threats of Pakistanese nukes. However, once India started bombing Pakistanese nuclear facilities in the broad day light, US gamut to contain India fell apart.
China despite being a member of Troika supported Pakistan, initially. But as the conflict progressed, China realized that India was able to isolate Pakistan completely by jamming Chinese signals. At this point, China thought that it would be better to have India as a friend than enemy. So both India and China downplayed Chinese involvement in the conflict. Russians have been urging Chinese to mend fences with India; but China and USA thought, this was a great time to inflict wounds on India. This proved to be a big miscalculation.
As a side effect of Operation Sindhoor, for the first time, mainly after realizing India's military capabilities, Chinese are really sincerely interested in Troika.
With 20% of the Pakistani air assets destroyed in Operation Sindoor, Pakistan is in no condition to mount any kind of military pressure on India. Moreover the Pakistanis are aware that third rate Chinese military hardware which is mostly untested does not work. They have to find better one.
Yes, Pakistan’s intimidation with Islamism and Jihadism to scare India will continue but with after operation Sindoor it is no longer effective. Now the Pakistanis have US on their side hence for them the US economic and diplomatic pressure is a more effective weapon as it was during the Cold War.
Any chance of Modi recovery with Trump is unlikely as India and Modi are mad and will not yield to any pressure including tariffs.
If US exerts pressure of any kind then cancel Apache and MQ-9 order. Buy your engine for LCA-2 elsewhere. The AMCA engine will come from Europe and not from US.
If India succeeds in not giving in into US pressure then it is making of big power status for India which ignores foreign pressure.