According to The Blood Telegram by Gary Bass, an Indian Admiral named Mihir Roy said that India was going to attack Pakistan the day after Pakistan attacked IOTL. After April, a month into Operation Searchlight, the refugee crisis made it clear that India was going to attack Pakistan, the only question was: when?
The Indian Army was already gathered at the Indo-East Pakistani border and the Pakistani attack was preemptive. An Indian attack was inevitable, and if it hadn’t occurred as a result of a Pakistani attack, the ostensible reason would be for humanitarian purposes.
Nixon planned to cut off all aid to India in alliance with a genocidal state? That’s insane. I think we need to ask ourselves if Nixon really was a foreign policy genius.
Nixon planned to cut off all aid to India in alliance with a genocidal state? That’s insane. I think we need to ask ourselves if Nixon really was a foreign policy genius.
He also ran a pro-Pakistan PR campaign, which sort of worked in the sense that Americans were beginning to become pro-Pakistan but most either did not know that a war was going on or didn't care.