I see no harm in it.
After nuking Japan, should they allow Japan to be left alone and develop the nukes for themselves?
Mind you, It is the Japanese the Americans fear the most.
The same is their case with Blacks. They used them as slaves. And when they set them free they made sure they did not have to keep looking behind their shoulders all the time.
They are violent people and know-how violence is utilized to grow and be safe. This is a different paradigm that Indians have no training or understanding.
Just look at India's moral lead-by-example nudging has brought to us. Every day our sons are getting killed at the borders. And to what objective? Just being sitting ducks? Of course, American soldiers also get killed but the context must not be ignored.
We let Pakistan become a nuclear state. We are allowing them to dispute our territories. We allowed Muslims to stay back. The reservation we gave to SC/BC Hindu communities became a thankless liability and a dose of daily insults. The current situation is so tinder-box-like that it can start civil unrest any day.
It is quite clear that we haven't yet understood the power dynamics like how to wield or share it while protecting our interests.
Today we have two nuclear states pointing hundreds of rocket batteries at us. Many of these rockets are nuclear-tipped. Now we have got two Pakistans flanking both sides. Pakistan became a nuclear weapon state uncontested. What kind of 5D chess our policymakers were playing at that time?
The answer is they, did not know what a provocation is.
You can only sense provocation if you are a violent person who has used violence before, without any guilt.
first, we have to let go of the assumption that the adversarial party does not have agency of their own, and we were the victim always.
too many here, but i'll pick one, the paki nulcear one.
let's go thru the sequence which led to pakis focussing on nuclear options, for the benefit of others who are interested.
- paki establishment wanted urdu to be the official language, bengalis rejected it.
- paki establishment almost lost power to mujib in elections, pakjabis responded with violence.
- paki establishment started crack down, which resulted in refugee influx into our border states.
- India which was living ship to mouth for food at that time, was having extra burden on resources to cater for refugees. edit : just started to recover from ship to mouth is a more accurate description.
- India tried raising this issue globally, India's concerns fell on deaf ear in capitals across the world just like these days. by the way liberals were on IG's side in U.S at that time.
- India had no choice but to stem the flow of refugees by going for the root cause i.e genocide of bengalis by pakjabis.
- PM wanted to go in may, IA leadership at that time advised against it citing monsoon.
- IA gets time to plan, instead of being reactionary and jumping head first, decides time and place of choosing, executes their plan.
- with a bit of luck, all wars needs a certain amount of luck, a certain jew called JFR jacob happened to be in right place at the right time, got a pakjabi called niazi to surrender.
- primary objectives having been met, India ended it's military campaign in 14 days, created a new country.
- pakjabis having realised that India can cut them to pieces when ever it wants, started looking for deterrence options, since the uncle SAM and chin weren't dependable in their time of need.
- next year after 71 i.e 72, they started their nuclear program, to protect themselves from India. their PM said, we will eat grass if need be, but we will make a nooclear bomb.
in effect, paki nuclear program is a reaction to india's military action.
these actions and reactions is THE game, options for each country in the equation are not unlimited, they are exist only in the realm of information and resources that is available at that point in time. optimal is picked and countries move forward with it. some yield visible results, some don't.
this also shows how events flow and are interconnected.
our adversaries are as afraid of us too, they do things because we already did something to them , which our civilian commentariat sometimes over estimates or under estimates. but how can we prevent a pig from behaving like a pig. as far as public is concerned, we can just hope that there are right people in right places, and they take the best course of action taking our past, present and future into consideration.
