Where are you guys getting your news/analysis from? Could you rate the sources. Here is mine:
The good ones:
Col Raina - No nonsense. He lives in JK so has first hand experience.
Gen Ravi Shankar (Gunner's shot)
Sri Iyer (PGurus)
Gen Rajeev Narayanan - Good but sometimes I feel he is imagining things
^all good
The bad ones:
Aadi Achint - Annoying as f**k. His juvenile attempts at humor/sarcasm is off putting. Unfortunately, he gets good guests.
I joined this guy when he had less than 1k followers because the General was on his channel. Stayed for a couple of years and then moved on as for some one that started off in English with no politics I found he started moving more to Hindi and indulging in politics.
you CANNOT mix military with politics. A number of people do this because it builds followers but it badly skews assessments.
The weird thing was him insisting on verifying members. I told him there is no such requirement on YT. And I was never going to join his WhatsApp group.
Seems to have had a falling out with Gen Shankar who gave his fledgling channel a start. Initially thought he was from the south since he said lived in Mysore. Maybe but he's a Punjabi.
Sumit Peer - The guy has some emotional issues.
Great for a pep talk
Sanjay Dixit - Would be tolerable if stopped giggling like a girl during debates.
Pastor Dixon is a retired civil servant that knows a lot of stuff.
Gaurav Arya - More of a comedian. Can't take anything he says seriously.
He's become a talking head and less of a soldier. His forte is info warfare. Very good at skewering the other sides narrative and then going on the offense. That's his main draw.
Best to avoid pak sources right now. Their Army's reputation has taken a massive hit and will need some rehabilitation. Their behavior/messaging right now is irrational.
This is the part I would like you to expand on.
What do you see in Pakistan that gives this impression
You continue to think it's a disease which can be cured. It's dead tissue which needs to be cut away. There is no cure.
Not cured but made less malignant. Your thinking is binary. There is more grey here between those two extremes and you don't need to go to the other extreme to achieve our objectives.
I find this way more realistic than idealistic cutting them out. You haven't thought through it have you.