India, Oct. 15 -- As India and Pakistan continue to exchange threats and rhetoric, the burden of their muscular posturing - from diplomatic isolation and economic strain to the weakening of regional stability - grows heavier with each passing day

After its partial victory against Pakistan in Op Sindoor 1.0, India's political and military leadership has been emboldened to the brink of bravado; this is both risky and dangerous. This new normal after Op Sindoor is an unprecedented use of threatening war rhetoric. While politicians have made irresponsible and irrational threats against Pakistan after India became a nuclear weapons power to retake PoK, no Service Chief has made any grandiose claims of political intent to annihilate Pakistan -...