Jan 6 2013: Most often such situations are created for political and financial gains - more expenses like bigger budgets for the armies etc, trade channeled thru fewer people and often through a third country. Also this way, the local attentions are diverted that allows for many activities including drugs, terrorism etc. added to this were perceived situations like the Russian and Chinese efforts to access the Indian ocean thru Pakistan that were leveraged to keep the situation escalated. Common man knows that there is nothing to be gained by this proxy war.....
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