India also faced similar difficult situations twice after independence, the first time was when China launched a major attack on the country over the border dispute in October 1962, it was the peak of the Cold War and India was in any group. Wasn’t involved, but he was very close to the Soviet Union, we looked for help from the Soviet Union, but their clear answer was, “India is a friend but China is our brother.”
It is reported that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has fled the country and fled to Poland, although his location is being claimed in Ukraine in the videos coming out. But seeing the devastating destruction caused by war in Ukraine and killing thousands of innocent human beings, the sentiments of the general public have turned in favor of President Zelensky and Ukraine. Yet it must be said that President Zelensky has blatantly disregarded the eternal law of foreign policy, which states, ‘There is no permanent friend in international relations, no permanent enemy, only your interests are your permanent friends’. Huh.’ Despite American assurances, Zelensky also forgot, ‘He who is powerful himself has the right to seek peace and demand peace.’
Then Russia gave a blow
India also faced similar difficult situations twice after independence, the first time was when China launched a major attack on the country over the border dispute in October 1962, it was the peak of the Cold War and India was in any group. Wasn’t involved, but he was very close to the Soviet Union, we looked for help from the Soviet Union, but their clear answer was, “India is a friend but China is our brother.”
It was obvious that the Soviet Union was with its communist partner China and China tarnished India’s reputation in this war, but we did learn the bitter lesson that “to get security, one must not only rely on one’s own strength but Such a foreign policy is of no use, which cannot find a partner in the middle of time.”
the lesson of 1971
Perhaps it was the result of this bitter lesson that in March 1971, when once again the nexus of Pakistan, China and America on the subject of crisis in East Pakistan came out openly against India, our country, despite being the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, continued to defend its security. forced to be practical. In fact, the Awami League in the then East Pakistan under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman created an unprecedented crisis for Pakistan by winning 167 parliamentary seats out of 169. The Pakistani rulers, instead of accepting the results of the elections, launched an army for repression in East Pakistan in March 1971, and in order to escape from them, more than 10 million Bengali refugees had entered the border of India.
Pakistan was intent on war with India at the behest of America and China. It is said that the then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a secret visit to China via Pakistan and thus prepared the role of future war in Pakistan’s favor.
The then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, hoping for help from her American counterpart Richard Nixon, tried to find out his side, hearing Nixon’s reply, the ground slipped under his feet, when the US President brazenly said on the subject that “Potential India- America will intervene on behalf of Pakistan in the Pakistan war.
Indo-Soviet friendship and cooperation treaty came to the fore
There could not have been a bigger warning and crisis for India than this. Indira Gandhi, the then Indian Prime Minister, put our foreign policy on the ground of pragmatism to ensure supreme national security, former Ambassador DP Dhar was immediately sent to Moscow in August followed by a high level Soviet delegation to New Delhi and on 9 August. In 1971, the ’21 Year Treaty of Indo-Soviet Friendship and Cooperation’ came into existence, which was signed by the then Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh on behalf of India and his counterpart Mr. Gromiko on behalf of the Soviet Union.
Section 9 of this treaty clearly provided that in times of crisis, both the Allies would assist each other in every possible way for the security of each other, this was an arrangement which fixed the guarantee of India’s security. And also the condition of Pakistan in the future war.
This was America’s stand
The rest of the history is that when the forces of Pakistani dictator General Yahya Khan attacked India on December 4, 1971 and India started giving a strong response to them, Richard Nixon, under the leadership of USS Enterprise, made his seventh nuclear weapon to help Pakistan. The naval fleet landed in the Bay of Bengal, India received a threat to stop the attack against Pakistan, otherwise the result would be very bad.
At the same time, at the request of India, the spokesman of the Soviet Defense Ministry warned the Seventh Fleet that if India was attacked, the Soviet Union’s nuclear missiles would sink the Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal, the result was that it lasted for 14 days. In this battle, the Seventh Fleet remained in its place and India defeated Pakistan by 16 December and created a new nation Bangladesh on the world map.
Pakistan’s ruling General Yahya Khan received exactly the same lesson as Mr. Zelensky in Ukraine today, while Indira Gandhi conducted the first nuclear test in Pokhran on 18 May 1974 after overcoming the country’s gravest post-independence crisis. By doing so expressed its security capabilities and intentions and from that day onwards India never again received any threat of attack.
(The author is Associate Professor, Department of Defense Studies, Meerut College. These are the personal views of the author. AnyTV is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness of the information and facts contained in the article)
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It is reported that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has fled the country and fled to Poland, although his location is being claimed in Ukraine in the videos coming out. But seeing the devastating destruction caused by war in Ukraine and killing thousands of innocent human beings, the sentiments of the general public have turned in favor of President Zelensky and Ukraine. Yet it must be said that President Zelensky has blatantly disregarded the eternal law of foreign policy, which states, ‘There is no permanent friend in international relations, no permanent enemy, only your interests are your permanent friends’. Huh.’ Despite American assurances, Zelensky also forgot, ‘He who is powerful himself has the right to seek peace and demand peace.’
Then Russia gave a blow
India also faced similar difficult situations twice after independence, the first time was when China launched a major attack on the country over the border dispute in October 1962, it was the peak of the Cold War and India was in any group. Wasn’t involved, but he was very close to the Soviet Union, we looked for help from the Soviet Union, but their clear answer was, “India is a friend but China is our brother.”
It was obvious that the Soviet Union was with its communist partner China and China tarnished India’s reputation in this war, but we did learn the bitter lesson that “to get security, one must not only rely on one’s own strength but Such a foreign policy is of no use, which cannot find a partner in the middle of time.”
the lesson of 1971
Perhaps it was the result of this bitter lesson that in March 1971, when once again the nexus of Pakistan, China and America on the subject of crisis in East Pakistan came out openly against India, our country, despite being the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, continued to defend its security. forced to be practical. In fact, the Awami League in the then East Pakistan under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman created an unprecedented crisis for Pakistan by winning 167 parliamentary seats out of 169. The Pakistani rulers, instead of accepting the results of the elections, launched an army for repression in East Pakistan in March 1971, and in order to escape from them, more than 10 million Bengali refugees had entered the border of India.
Pakistan was intent on war with India at the behest of America and China. It is said that the then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a secret visit to China via Pakistan and thus prepared the role of future war in Pakistan’s favor.
The then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, hoping for help from her American counterpart Richard Nixon, tried to find out his side, hearing Nixon’s reply, the ground slipped under his feet, when the US President brazenly said on the subject that “Potential India- America will intervene on behalf of Pakistan in the Pakistan war.
Indo-Soviet friendship and cooperation treaty came to the fore
There could not have been a bigger warning and crisis for India than this. Indira Gandhi, the then Indian Prime Minister, put our foreign policy on the ground of pragmatism to ensure supreme national security, former Ambassador DP Dhar was immediately sent to Moscow in August followed by a high level Soviet delegation to New Delhi and on 9 August. In 1971, the ’21 Year Treaty of Indo-Soviet Friendship and Cooperation’ came into existence, which was signed by the then Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh on behalf of India and his counterpart Mr. Gromiko on behalf of the Soviet Union.
Section 9 of this treaty clearly provided that in times of crisis, both the Allies would assist each other in every possible way for the security of each other, this was an arrangement which fixed the guarantee of India’s security. And also the condition of Pakistan in the future war.
This was America’s stand
The rest of the history is that when the forces of Pakistani dictator General Yahya Khan attacked India on December 4, 1971 and India started giving a strong response to them, Richard Nixon, under the leadership of USS Enterprise, made his seventh nuclear weapon to help Pakistan. The naval fleet landed in the Bay of Bengal, India received a threat to stop the attack against Pakistan, otherwise the result would be very bad.
At the same time, at the request of India, the spokesman of the Soviet Defense Ministry warned the Seventh Fleet that if India was attacked, the Soviet Union’s nuclear missiles would sink the Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal, the result was that it lasted for 14 days. In this battle, the Seventh Fleet remained in its place and India defeated Pakistan by 16 December and created a new nation Bangladesh on the world map.
Pakistan’s ruling General Yahya Khan received exactly the same lesson as Mr. Zelensky in Ukraine today, while Indira Gandhi conducted the first nuclear test in Pokhran on 18 May 1974 after overcoming the country’s gravest post-independence crisis. By doing so expressed its security capabilities and intentions and from that day onwards India never again received any threat of attack.
(The author is Associate Professor, Department of Defense Studies, Meerut College. These are the personal views of the author. AnyTV is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness of the information and facts contained in the article)