Bruce Riedel An Impossible Partnership?: Pakistan, America and the Future of South Asia 

You are hinting at how the US deep state acts and how it intentionally keeps Americans uninformed (same for UK, Australia, and all other responsible democracies).

At that time, hight of the cold war, India falling into the Russian orbit world have been a geopolitical disaster for USA.

Bunch of conspiracy fools. They were funding the Afghan militias (stupidly), not the military dictatorship of Pakistan to fight India.

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Aap ko kia takleef hai Pakistan kay Nuclear say.? India nay keo build kia Nuclear.? India karay tu sahi. Pakistan karnay tu dunya ki maa chudh jati hai...1971 mai tum loog chutia bannay East Pakistan mai interfering kari pher Pakistan nay Nuclear banna dia lakin dunya ko nahi bataya. Pher India nay Dobara Galti ki 1998 mai Nuclear test raha tu Pakistan ko be moqqa mil gaya.. aap Pakistan par sanction lagtay tu india par be lagtay essi leay Pakistan pher Bach gaya....O Bhai agr tum indian ko peace chahea tu Kashmir ka mamla hal karo otherwise Pakistan India ko lay kay dubay ga.

@@kamlipaul8498 sanction india par bhi lage the be . 5 lacross satellite lagaye the pokhran par nazar rakhne india usa ka dushman tha us wakt kyonki india Soviet union ka dost tha aur socialism par chalta tha

@@kamlipaul8498 because Pakistan is undemocratic terrorists supporting lsIamic country. India is free, democratic, principle based & secular country. There is credibility of lsIamic nations, all lsIamic nations are pathological liers & terrorists supporter.

Who r u to coment on china though u don't have toilets also

Rajender Your information lacks depth and its one sided. Pakistan was developing nuclear weapon and US sort of knew about it but they couldn't do anything about it bcoz Pakistan won a war for the US in Afghanistan by beating the red Army nuclear program and that war went side by side; Bruce Riedel said in one of his speeches that if any war had the most bang for the buck USA spent was Zia Ul Haq's war in Afghanistan against the Soviet union and the events that followed led to the collapse of USSR. Pakistan is the one who brought China and USA together, you may want to read about Henry Kissinger's secret visit to china to meet Mou arranged and facilitated by Pakistan.

The military and government seldom listen to progressive experts. They're busy playing cowboys like Raegan

*"The gang that can't shoot straight"* -John Mearshheimer re the *Blob.*

Agnimitra BRF He makes all that clear in his book

India's enemy's are within and they are in cahoots with pakistan to break india up.The indian politicians are living in a bubble with their idiotic ethics. Their politicians should be forced to study islam if they want to be in parliament.Otherwise india won't exist for long for the hindus and violence are poles apart.Their history speaks.

What is wrong with you paranoid hindutva types? Conservative US politics habe always played cowboyin the world, but supporting secular democracy is entirely different

totally agree with you slowly americans are realizing

I’m a teenage Pakistani, I appreciate so much USA effort of keeping this country in proxy war , and keeping it as back yard snake , as Hilary say .. These we Pakistani we don’t need to education, life we are modern slave of state within state OF USA to just profit itself by destroying us

Today in 2020 you still want better ties with America.? 😝🤣😝🤣 Ladakh mai jutay pard wa deay India ko China say.. Owr America India ko Rescue kar be nahi aya.

@@kamlipaul8498 maybe you don’t know but more Chinese soldiers were killed than Indians! And we fight our own war, we don’t need others.

@@kamlipaul8498Americau akbar and chill. Sunni allah america will save mecca medina from shia

So true. Unbelievable how much rubbish he's talking. "Pakistani Taliban control 40% of Karachi and the largest port". What rubbish. He's brain-washing those poor kids with Anti-Pakistani sentiment because Pakistan is becoming more of an economic threat to the US due to it's massive contracts with China and less dependence on the US. If you look at this from an economic perspective, you see that whenever the US had strong ties with Pakistan, it was because Pakistan was dancing to it's tunes. Now that it isn't, and China is protecting Pakistan, the US wants to consider them as enemies. Such Bastards. And he keeps boasting on the amount of aid given, he doesn't mention that most of that aid was actually the cost that Pakistan itself spent, and this was just compensation

Trump--the lobby group cease to exist and so is their gravy train.That is why all of them want Trump out out.Foreign govts buy/influnce american foreign policy.More aid to country x means more money recycled into their (lobby group's) pocket ? Clinton Foundation.

😂😂 Must have learnt from India don’t go around and poke other people

A military state with no progressive civil society means standing on its own feet?

@@lazypops3117 now that Pakistan has a leader that is chosen by the people and not a puppet …progression will come and this is evident from all performance indicators .!

Pakistan is a terrorist state

Even the Saudis are getting tired with Pakistans promise to stand on its two own feet and not doing so. I didnt say trying to stand up because after what 17 or 18 times Pakistan promising the same with the IMF, it didnt. Hence we can say even the top most Arab Prince himself is getting tired.

You have managed to lower the number of minorities from 8 % to where it is now

Just wait, Balochistan will be next Bangladesh.

@@swaraj2818 or arunachal pradesh is the new Tibet

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What did you try to say?

Page 380 13.19 The Time Scale of Harm

They won biggest war in human history

@@heathledger330 can you please elaborate? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Forget about world wars! There are many other factors!

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How many wars did the US start? Zero. Pakistan? Four times. The point is about Pakistan’s judgement.

Check the true history uncle.. but not Pakistani's writien history 😂😂😂

When qiyamat occurs but India will be breaked by Pakistan in near future

lol 😂 yeah anyways you guys live in your own bubble , now look at your condition dude , US left Afghanistan now and you guys were celebrating like as if khilafat was achieved, now taliban is playing double game with you only using TTP , killing your troops

Please bro, Mr. Reidel is a well read and connected man. His opinions must be respected He never said anything about greater india He has high respect for Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. Gen Musharraf has the same opinion about these two Indian PM Mr.Riedel gave a honest opinion on Modi that he is skeptical

Nah, Gandhi and Nehru were always top of the inc. Jinnah had a complex of superiority, and played religion for political gain

peter tuann No we didnt almost nuke india in 1998. Your information and views are inaccurate. And we dont care whether America trusts Pakistan or not. For better or for worse, they still need eachother.

Pithukuli Seeman Pakistan was born out of Islamic Nationalism and the fact that hindu lobby was marginalizing Muslims and other groups. Even today we can see how india treats not just minorities but even low caste hindus. Pakistans record on minority treatment is questionable too - but nowhere near as bad as india where thousands have been killed in just hours in communal riots. Radicial hindus like RSS and Shiv Sena dream about "akhand bharat" and other ridiculous wet dreams - but Pakistan is and always will be the single largest bulwark against this extremist ideology. There may be arrogance by Pakistanis but there is no "anger" -- we got what we wanted in 1947. We are a proud nation.

You don't care about nobody not even those that shower you with billions so that pakistanis can survive on a day-to-day basis

Pithukuli Seeman What happened to Muslims in indian Gujrat? Christians in Orissa? untouchable dalits in assam or even new delhi where they are forced to clean up human waste because of india's lack of toilets as for the Sikh in Peshawar - he was killed by a fellow Sikh and it was due to a business dispute. Had NOTHING to do with sectarian or communal violence. I'm a resident of Peshawar by the way and we have a reasonably large and peaceful Sikh minority that still thrives here. They are adopted to local culture and they are very much one of us. We dont require lectures from third-rate yindoostani anal-ysts like you

Diesel_Nut84 What are those things on your profile image ..scissors? Are you a barber? Oh wait ….you are a barbarian!!

Ironic. You saying that reflects more about what you don’t know…

Even many pakisthani don't know what is happening in Pakistan How elite are looting in name of India and terrorisam.

India first learn to your own house in order.

I don't know why you think there is no possibility of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. The reckless Indian attack at Balakot (inside Pakistan) in February 2019 could have spiraled out of either party's control. Fortunately the Indian Air Force attack was a dud causing damage to only a few trees. Pakistan carried out a proportionate response by striking near Indian installations. If by accident an Indian installation had been hit causing casualties, it could have led to escalation and the situation spiral out of anyone's control.

Kashmir is the issue. If India actually resolved the problem by dialogue it wouldn’t have a nuclear enemy on its border.

@@DC-wp6oj kashmiri issue is unsolvable. From Pakistan perspective pak army won't let it happen cause in pak army runs country.from inception of pak not even a single civilian govt completed its term. In pak army have owns business. As long as the issue exist they can be strong have large budget cut.

@@gouramahesh2880 thats very true. The army certainly does run a racket.

Knowledgeable Ignorant you are right on your first point. As for your second point, it’s not so much that we sanction Pakistan intentionally when a civilian government comes around, it’s just that the circumstances changed very drastically.

Knowledgeable Ignorant i Ft

I’m a teenage Pakistani, I appreciate so much USA effort of keeping this country in proxy war , and keeping it as back yard snake , as Hilary say .. These we Pakistani we don’t need to education, life we are modern slave of state within state OF USA to just profit itself by destroying us

Hahaha he's just racist white supremacist in love with RSS.

Man doesn't know what he's talking about. No wonder why washington can't carry out their policies in Islamabad. Or kabul, for that matter.

Epitome of naivete

Hahahahaha

The Afghan army was poorly trained and by the end of US involvement in Afghanistan, they weren't being paid. Additionally, he made this claim in 2014, when the Afghan army was successfully carrying out operations however they did so with air, recon, tech & comms support from the US Army. When the US army had to leave they took these facilities with them. Afghan army was simply unwiling (and unable) to fight. Its not exactly a poor assesment considering he said this some 8 years prior to the end of US involvement.

@@adityajoshi1586 40:20 This discussion took place in 2014, and Riedel's reply is in reference to 2015. Way too many factors have changed from 2014 to 2021 when the US literally abandoned everything in a matter of days. The way the US decided to withdraw played a crucial role in what followed - how the Taliban as well as the Afghan State assessed the situation, and acted.

In same manner one can compare UK Army of 1940s to 2020s and snicker at the military comparison...

It's a joint venture, now he is blaming everything on pakistan. Never trust US. They asked pak to create, fund and train these Taliban to counter Soviet, after Soviet fall. It's all, US and pak who still continued.

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The Taliban, as a school of thought, were created before (mid 1970s) the US-Russia proxy war (early 1980s) in a halfwitted attempt to create 'strategic depth' vis a vis India... but the Pakistani textbooks and media will say whatever is preferable to legitimize the all pervasive role of its army in de facto running state affairs since the country's inception in 1974. The Taliban and other Deobandi Jihadi groups were born in what was then called the North West Frontier Province and were utilized against India since the first war over Kashmir. Since independence Pakistan's Army/Government (same thing) has been playing this dangerous game of using unconventional warfare which did not cease even when the country achieved military superiority over its neighbor as a consequence of US support in the 80s (which was subsequently squandered by excessive military spending of incompetent military dictators) and attained nuclear weapons. A country with a chip on its shoulder due to 'unfair' separation which serves as a deeply ingrained victim-narrative that is poisoning the minds of the vast majority of even the civil population, because it serves as a raison d'etre for the Army's leadership role, causing many to call it an 'army with a state' rather than a 'state with an army'

@@satyaprasad9774 The US outsourced everything to Zia-ul-Haq. Saudi was asked to provide the funds and Pakistan made all decisions on the ground. Haq chose the 2 most militant and extremist groups out of the 7 present among the Afghan refugees in FATA (because the other 5 wanted to reinstate the Afghan Shah, who had attempted to do-away with the durand line), to serve a dual purpose. Firstly, he had experience with the Anti-India Lashkars already (Pakistan used since inception in 1947), and secondly he wanted to turn these militias around to target India in Kashmir (which happened as of the late 80s).Moreover, Pakistan was looking to avoid border clashes at the durand line and had a nascent insurgency problem in the 'Pashtunistan' movemen, which both could be solved by sending and paying these same people to fight in Afghanistan. The US wanted a proxy war with deniability, Gen. Haq wanted a Jihad. So, actually US equipment was provided for Pakistans Jihad, not the other way around.

@Eric mahaan i feel your pain bro. after what Pak Army did to you guys haha

@@saadmalik8076 porkistan started all 4 wars lot all 4 so shut the f***up kid goo learn ur own history

@Eric mahaan Their hatred of india has clouded their thinking.First they sold their soul and country to uncle sam for a few F-16 and tanks.Now it's China's turn to be santa claws ??? Sad state for the people of pakistan. China has the population to displace them ???Look at what is happening in Tibet.

If not Taliban,then some other name of another terrorist religion organization...What difference it makes ?? Still same....

He is absolutely right, who is teleban,

And the country is going to religious autocratic hell.

Yasss sirrr I M PROUDDDD TO BE PAKISTAAAAAANIIIII!!!!!! GRAPE COUNTRY!!!! BEEERRRYYY GREAT!!!!!

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Who Says You Looting Most of The Resources Even Not Have been Explored Only Because of Unrest in Balochistan and Imran is Solving Matters With Time It Will be Solved and All Other Balochistan States acceded With Pakistan Except Khan of Kalat But Their One Brother Was agreed and That's Why Military Takes Action

What about Sindh? Gilgit?

@@ASGdgill Every is a Part of Federal Government of Pakistan It's Not Your Deal

Yeah pure . Not single terrorist

+Ad Ch Pakistan is increasing its nuclear arsenal at maximum rate and when thisa lecture was arranged at that time it was not declared that mullah omar is dead

+Prashant Patel It is now known that mullah omar died in April 2013 while the publishing date for this video is june 2014. I can't tell when it was recorded if the publishing date matched the recording date proves that he was bs-ing just like the bs of pakistan having more nukes than england and france infact pakistan still doesn't have more nukes than england or france and these are declared nuclear states while who knows how many nukes are in possession of israel their nuclear has remained unchecked since 1960s

I know mullah Omar died in 2013 but in 2015 it was declared that he died 2 years ago in Karachi hospital, I know for the fact when it was declared it was modi government in india

Prashant Patel well then that proves that bruce didn't know about mullah either and was bsing as usual that is the problem with these retired "experts"

May be

The same people created Ind*a too, as both countries came into existence in August 1947, there was no country called Ind*a prior to that time, what there was was the British Ind*an Empire or a landmass called South Asia which was in the form of many states and kingdoms when the British first arrived in the region in Bengal in the early 1700’s, there was no one country, therefore the claim that somebody created Pakistan is nonsensical because it supposes that the British who found the region as many different independent kingdoms, amalgamated or cobbled together the vastly differing and disparate regions of South Asia into the artificially crafted political construct and entity called the British Ind*an Empire should have left South Asia as one “country” or entity constitutionally speaking when they wound up their empire, but the question is why should they have done when there was no country as Ind*a in the past, except may be the odd short lived empire thousands of years ago and also when those same Brits didn’t find the place as ONE. If the accusation is that tge British created Pakistan then the british practically created half the countries in the world including Ind*a when they decolonised their former colonies and the other half of countries were created by the other European colonial powers when they decolonised, almost everybody that wasn’t a colonial or imperial power was a colony of these powers and hence were created, may be except fir Nepal out of the hundreds of countries, lol, anyway nice try, snd yes it was our right to have our own country as native peoples of these lands that make up Pakistan regardless of what the British it the present day ind*ans wanted, after all the jabs belongs to its people, this land called Pakistan sure as hell never belonged to any Gujju, bhaiya, bihari, Bengali, Maratha, Dakhan or Tamil but belonged to and always rightly will to the people of these lands who are the a Sindhis, Baluch, Pakhtuns and Punjabis etc, you nor any Bharat matta type have no claim, it is a matter of self determination and the right of every people to collectively organise themselves as a state, unless of course you are against independence, freedom and sovereignty! Pakistan Zindabaad

@@madeehasaeed786 Pakistan Jindabad??? Looking at it right now looks like the slogan should be "Pakistan se Jinda bhag"

I’d say Malaysia Zindabad and UK Zindabad too because all countries have the right to exist and continue as independent countries. Nobody needs to concern themselves with Pakistan as every country at some point goes through difficult times, we will come through this. The remarkable thing here is that all you could do was focus on the slogan at the end which is basically generic for all countries, you are neither able to show the validity of the initial comment in which it’s mentioned people or whatever who allegedly created Pakistan when the reality is that this country and its land belongs and belonged to the people of these lands, not to any Indian, there is no reason why South Asia should have been left as one entity at the end of the colonial period, it never was one and especially was never a country, if we go by the logic of that original comment then those people or forces who allegedly created Pakistan also created India in August 1947 as it too didn’t exist prior to that as it was also part of the British Indian Empire, not to forget a hundred other countries that came into existence when the European colonial powers including the British all wound down their respective empires after WW2 but for some unfathomable reason the only objection seems to be towards Pakistan coming into existence, then it’s some sort of conspiracy, lol, there is something called self determination you know, nor are you able to prove wrong or refute anything I said in my first comment, so no, won’t be running anywhere. Next time show the concepts of self determination and the fact that these lands belong to us to be wrong, prove that this land belongs to some bhaiya or Bihari or Dakhan and not to the people of Pakistan rather than the tired old propaganda of Pakistan being created by some nefarious forces or being a conspiracy of the British to divide Bharat matta, what a silly argument. Again Pakistan Zindabaad

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But India ko gaad marega. Good luck from Nepal.

That's far from the truth, they have a problem due to the taliban coming from afghanistan due to the US invasion. If you you can build a fence on the border with afghanistan that would help. Love India :)

I agree with most rather almost all of what you said. Problem is no Wahhabism. Wahhabism is to believe in the oneness of Allah and to avoid polytheism in the least of its form. Problem is with the interpretation of " Jihad ", and I would like to stress not "Jihad" but the INTERPRETATION of "Jihad" and the subsidiary actions that follow it.

Psylock X. hahaha he is nothing but another zionist

You are wrong

@Laloo are you introducing yourself?

@@sudarshan3965 i have translated it in simple words. Now whatever is wrong, it is with you.

@Laloo no. We all know you were introducing yourself, and your family background. Where your family comes from? Shit.

Setting aside the lame attempt to insult his lack of hair or his age, what has he said that you disagree with?

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Pakistan received nearly 40 billion USD from usa were as south korea received only 20 billion USD. Now compare both Pakistan elite are looting pakisthan. still people re elect them🤦

People can dream, they say☺️

are you f**ing kidding me??? With Indias help???? Afghani people believe that Pakistan is holding their Pastoon land and they want to get it back by their own. From where did India come here!! Its the Pustoon people that want their land back stop blaming everything on India.

well this talk was in 2014..and in 2021 all of his predictions are wrong..

Not true he’s not 100% on everything he’s attached some lies to som facts & hope those who don’t know anything will believe everything without double checking, It’s like blind faith.

@@muhammadaliclay8976 Pakistan remains a terrorist pariah state