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[deleted] t1_ixpdqw2 wrote

Fun fact: India has never invaded another country.

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Acrobatic_Video_6770 t1_ixpn9tc wrote

hope india learns some of invasion stuff from german friends

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tyger2020 t1_ixq29r5 wrote

>hope india learns some of invasion stuff from german friends

If they want to learn how to invade successfully they'd be better learning from their British friends

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itsgolday t1_ixqzvy5 wrote

Late to the party but how about Operation Polo or the Siachen conflict? Genuine question here, I don’t know anything about India.

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Huge-Physics5491 t1_ixt11ai wrote

Heard about the Cholas?

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[deleted] t1_ixt24n1 wrote

What about them?

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Huge-Physics5491 t1_ixt4iwg wrote

They invaded Southeast Asia

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[deleted] t1_ixt4tq4 wrote

Did that happen before India’s independence and founding as a nation in 1947?

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Huge-Physics5491 t1_ixt4xsy wrote

Well, after founding, most countries haven't invaded their neighbours

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[deleted] t1_ixt5f4b wrote

That’s the whole point of my original comment, that India has not invaded another sovereign country since its founding in 1947.

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[deleted] t1_ixugqxa wrote

I mean that was the exception, not the norm. I don't think there was any other dynastic in all of Indian history that had led massive invasions anywhere outside the subcontinent.

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no1bullshitguy t1_ixtf4qh wrote

India although have annexed its state of Goa though. But that was when Portuguese were not ready to let it go

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throawayacc1984 t1_ixtnljb wrote

Goa was a colony, its people were fighting for freedom, and india only intervened after the dictator of Portugal flat out refused to even discuss granting independence to Goa.

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[deleted] t1_ixthc2z wrote

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, everyone is going on about Goa as if it’s a sovereign country.

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limitbreaksolidus t1_ixri3wc wrote

bangladesh, sikkim, Goa, pakistan, kashmir and china say hi

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throawayacc1984 t1_ixrt93b wrote

>bangladesh

Intervention to stop a genocide that too only after west pakistan attacked India first.

>sikkim

Referendum

>Goa

Emancipation of a colony after Portugal refused to grant freedom.

>pakistan

Dude Pakistan is the one who's started every single one of the wars! Even neutral sources agree on this.

>kashmir

Pakistan invaded kashmir first, and the Indian military only entered kashmir after the king signed the instrument of accession, thus legally making kashmir a state in the Indian union.

>china

Is that supposed to be a joke? China is the one who invaded Tibet in the first place! They were the ones who then invaded and captured parts of the state of Arunachal pradesh, claiming it as a part of South Tibet.

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Exotic_Conclusion_21 t1_ixr4042 wrote

They invaded Hyderabad and goa

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[deleted] t1_ixr57fu wrote

I wasn’t aware Hyderabad and Goa weren’t located in India. /s

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Exotic_Conclusion_21 t1_ixr71u0 wrote

Quit down voting me for 0 reason. Portugal owned Goa, making it Portuguese land which was in fact a sovereign nation. Hyderabad was an independent princely state for aprox a year before India took it. Both were not owned by India, but India invaded both and conquered both. Also, imo the intervention in Sri Lanka as well as east pakistan(bangladesh) were both invasions as well.

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godmadetexas t1_ixpg9gg wrote

Define “invaded”. They have done expeditionary actions in the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. None of them were long-lasting invasions, but two of them resulted in regime changes - albeit popular ones.

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International-Fall49 t1_ixphi46 wrote

We liberated bangladesh when they were being buttfucked by pakis and ur beloved USA under Nixon and Kissinger was supporting that genocide .

Indian armed forces were in Dhaka when pakis surrendered . We have given their freedom how many other countries wud have done that

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[deleted] t1_ixph9mz wrote

Unprompted military aggression against another country, not in response to that country’s military actions against India or neighboring country.

Hope that helps!

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_karma_bitch t1_ixpfa9x wrote

Wrong Present day Bangladesh 1971 sri Lanka civil war

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throawayacc1984 t1_ixpfugg wrote

1)India intervened in Bangladesh on the request of the Mukti bahini to stop the ongoing genocide, and that too only after west pakistan attacked India first, so it's not an invasion.

2)Indian intervention in Sri Lanka also only happened after the sri lankan government asked india to intervene, so again not an invasion.

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Five__Stars t1_ixpff9z wrote

Also Goa.

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[deleted] t1_ixpfhux wrote

Goa isn’t a country

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Five__Stars t1_ixpfmm3 wrote

Portugal then.

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throawayacc1984 t1_ixpfw6u wrote

Goa is a part of India, it was a Portugese colony. So it wasn't an invasion.

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[deleted] t1_ixpq8vg wrote

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Five__Stars t1_ixpuq7a wrote

You can think whatever you want about it and that's your right but it was internationally recognised as Portugese territory and therefore from a technical standpoint it was an invasion. I'm not making any pretense on the righteousness of that move.

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