Not entirely happy with this outcome, this was a golden opportunity to destroy those f**kers root and stem and deliver lasting blows to their army. At the same time, happy for our soldiers and people stuck in border areas, they won't be directly in the harm's way any more and that counts for something.
I also feel that as much as this is a victory of our armed forces, we missed out on scoring some optics goals. For a neutral third party, there is absolutely no difference between our media and their media. Both will claim 100% victory and both claims will be discarded without giving them any importance. If India had a reliable mouthpiece, like BBC or CNN or the likes, which although not 100% unbiased and truthful, but if it could not be completely ignored as peddling fabricated news like our current media, it would have gone a long way in controlling the narrative of the operation as well as its outcome. Our media has damaged not only its own reputation (which was already nonexistent) but also negatively impacted the messages the Indian govt and armed forces could have sent to the international media and other govts.
I also wonder how long this ceasefire would last and if we would ever get an accurate account of losses we suffered in achieving this and victories we scored and damage delivered on their land.
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