Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 591 - 283: [Republic: Cutting Off Your National Fortune at the Ankles]
"There’s an economic crisis in your own country, yet you don’t deal with it first and come to occupy my borders instead?"
"I’m facing dual pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union here, thinking they’re neighbors, let’s have a friendly talk, peaceful resolution is the way."
"In the end, the other side not only didn’t appreciate it but increased their encroachment of the Republic’s borders."
"From geopolitical strategy to Great Power Struggle, the Republic couldn’t figure out what the motive behind India’s actions was."
"Because the military gamble in this matter is too great, far beyond rational thinking."
"To put it bluntly."
"Anyone with a normal level of intelligence wouldn’t think of taking such a big risk to confront the Republic actively."
"From the Republic’s perspective, India’s approach seems more like a hot-headed guy making a rash decision in a moment of impulse."
"But how could that be possible?"
"India has a large territory and a significant population."
"Long accustomed to confronting the superpower, the Soviet Union and the United States, the Republic for a moment couldn’t understand if there was anyone rational in India’s decision-making circle."
"In fact." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"It was just that the Republic didn’t know enough about India."
"Completely misunderstanding India’s peculiarities."
"Never expected that among all the countries in the world, one would suddenly pop up and act recklessly."
"Just a moment of hot-headed decision-making."
"Another point is."
"India itself was colonized by the British Commonwealth and is a victim of World War II, logically speaking, they should be in the same camp as the Republic."
"At least the surface efforts should be manageable, right?"
"But even if one is floating, it wouldn’t happen so quickly, would it?"
Yu Feng said this and shrugged:
"But that’s exactly what India did."
"Just got the support of the United States and the platform of the Soviet Union, turning around wanting to occupy the territories of surrounding neighbors, including the Republic, Myanmar, and other surrounding countries."
"That India, this federation and its people, underwent an astonishingly rapid transformation of mentality."
"Just gained independence from invaders, only to become an invader themselves."
"It’s just...how should I put it?"
"Incomprehensible."
"The swift transformation of identity left the surrounding countries unprepared."
"Therefore, the Republic’s idea of peaceful negotiations is simply impossible, as India has already adopted the mentality of an aggressor."
"Negotiating with aggressors will only be seen as weakness by them."
"Hence, India’s response to the Republic’s desire for peace talks was to further infiltrate the Republic’s border area."
"Due to the generational gap in thoughts between the two sides."
"Thus led to the Republic’s defensive counterattack."
"After all, if I reason with you peacefully and you refuse to understand human language, don’t blame me for taking action."
"Thus."
"After dealing with the domestic rebellion forces in the west, India directly demanded the Republic to cede border territories and asked for a large portion of the land."
"Naturally, these unreasonable demands were rejected by the Republic."
"And seeing this, India stopped pretending."
"In October 1962, they crossed the ’McMahon Line’ to invade Republic territory."
"The Republic started its counterattack."
"The campaign lasted a month, ending with the Republic recovering disputed territories and initiating a ceasefire."
"The casualty ratios between both sides astonished nations worldwide."
"The Republic suffered 722 deaths, 1697 injuries, with none captured."
"India reported 4885 deaths (including a brigadier general), 1047 injuries, and 3968 captured (including 26 officers of brigadier general rank and above)."
Yu Feng placed the official survey data in the broadcast room:
"One can see."
"There’s a significant disparity in the casualty ratio between the two sides, and India had few injured."
"Because they were either killed or captured."
"Thus only over 1000 were injured."
"Total casualties plus captives reached about 8853 people."
"This battle was fatal for India."
"As said earlier, from the Republic’s standpoint, India’s behavior was excessively risky and extremely unwise."
"Also being a World War II victim, the Republic consistently advocated for resolving through negotiations."
"But India didn’t listen."
"It had to fight."
"The outcome was self-evident; the Republic won."
"Thus everything the Republic considered happened on India’s side."
Saying this,
Yu Feng pulled out several newspapers along with internal screenshots showing the scenario within India towards the end of 1962, preparing to play a video.
Yu Feng pointed to a screenshot of prayer parades filling the streets:
"After the defeat, India’s national pride was severely damaged, and the entire Indian society plunged into panic."
"Especially some Indian troops fleeing without battle, regarded as a national disgrace."
"Now look at this newspaper."
Yu Feng pointed out an American newspaper and spoke:
"This is from an American journalist’s account of India."
"Let’s review his depiction of India."
"Panic spread among the populace, Indian federal songs repeated over the broadcast, people gathered to pray, but national morale had already collapsed."
Then Yu Feng played a video.
In the video depicting an Indian city, some people prayed, others marched, while some took advantage of chaos to vandalize.
Exposing the internal emotional collapse of Indian citizens at that time.
Yu Feng continued by extracting some data and said:
"Before the war."
"India held the position of ’non-aligned movement leader,’ and its credibility was outstanding; in declaring war on the Republic, it saw 53 African countries supporting India."
"Most of this stemmed from the position and credibility of the ’non-aligned movement leader.’"
"However, as India fiercely invaded Republic borders yet retreated on all fronts, it cried for help, seeking urgent assistance from the United States, British Commonwealth, Soviet Union."
"A federation claiming to promote ’non-alignment movement leader,’ being the first to seek help from those powers."
"This contrast is... it’s like a vegetarian leader who preaches against eating meat, secretly devours meat when starving."
"Thinks no one notices."
"But those 53 resolute followers that once believed in him are now staring dumbfounded at the meat-eating guy from afar."
"Faith collapses directly, some even spit in disdain."
"India’s credibility becomes zero."
"Before the war, 53 African countries supported India, after a month-long war, only 2 clearly expressed support for India."
"Other federations remain ambiguous, refraining from expressing positions."
"If the Republic’s founding war was the ’Peninsula War,’ then India’s founding war was with the Republic in this battle."
"Only the Republic won the ’Peninsula War,’ soaring from then on."
"Whereas India’s so-called ’world’s third military power’ founding war was brutally shattered, taking decades to potentially recover."
"However, this was all India’s doing."
"The Republic, considering India’s internal chaos and economic crisis, multiple times offered to resolve territorial issues through negotiations, with the intention of being a good neighbor."
"India didn’t appreciate this; to them, peace talks meant surrender, hence their brazenness."
"The Republic had no choice but to fight."
"This fight."
"India’s decades-long national fortune was crippled."
"Even more critical was this stand."
"India’s foreign exchange reserves were depleted, failing to defeat the Republic, the planned industrial reform stagnant due to insufficient funds and public opinion."
"Military industrialization failed."
"Even decades later the situation hasn’t improved; during the [global anti-terror] series in 2001, India still heavily purchased foreign weapons and equipment."
"Only then could India’s internal military needs be maintained."
"The impact is imaginable."
"A federal country’s weaponry entirely reliant on imports, not merely crippling the national fortune, but cutting it off at the ankle."
Yu Feng said this while shaking his head.
Others try to reason with you diplomatically, you think they are easy to bully.
Look now, satisfied?
Weapon and equipment all imported, the things they couldn’t do at the founding (military industrialization reform), are hard to pursue later, haven’t you seen it hasn’t improved over these decades?
