Washington: The United States Vice-President JD Vance said Thursday, May 8, that India and Pakistan should defuse tensions, but he added that the United States could not control Asian neighbors with nuclear arms and a war between them would be “none of our things”.
“We want this thing to defuse itself as quickly as possible. However, we cannot control these countries,” said Vance in an interview on Fox News Show the Story With Martha MacCallum.
“What we can do is try to encourage these people to defuse a little, but we are not going to get involved in the middle of the war which is fundamentally not of our business and has nothing to do with the ability of America to control it,” he added.
India is an important partner for Washington, which aims to counter the growing influence of China, while Pakistan remains an American ally despite its importance of importance after the removal of Washington from Afghanistan neighboring in 2021.
Analysts and some former officials have said that we have participation in the United States to achieve diplomatic objectives Russia War in Ukraine And the War of Israel in Gaza could ensure that Washington leaves India and Pakistan by themselves at the start of their tensions, without much direct pressure from the United States government.
Pakistan and India have accused each other of launching drone attacksAnd the Minister of Defense of Islamabad said that new reprisals “More and more certain” The second day of major clashes Thursday.
Two days of fighting killed nearly four dozen people.
The last climbing of the Indian-Pakistani rivalry old of decades began on April 22 when activists killed 26 people The cashmere administered in India, in an attack that New Delhi blamed in Islamabad, who denied the accusations and called for a neutral investigation.
