Pakistan's opening moves have been stunning so far, seems like everybody underestimated how hard they'd be able to hit. Whether they'll be able to maintain the momentum is yet to be seen, though. They could fall into the same trap Russia did if they squander the strong opener, since India seems likely to be able to tank attrition for far longer than Pakistan can if their warfighting momentum begins to slow.
Pakistan seems to have the tactical competence advantage so far, but India's got numbers. Big fucking numbers. That's a problem for Pakistan if they can't secure the upper hand quickly and decisively.
I mean, they're ethnically identical. The difference here comes down to religion/culture, and as a betting man I'd say Muslims have the warfighting advantage against Hindus due to being far more spiritually and culturally unified.
Hindus haven't fought a real war in a long time, Muslims have been fighting them incessantly around the world. They aren't anywhere near as battle-tested.
That's the thing, what they believe in isn't really unified. What we refer to as "Hinduism" isn't a discrete spirituality in the same way that other world religions can be defined. It's more like a loosely-correlated collection of thousands of polytheistic cults.
Practically any Indian abroad will admit it whenever faced with the prospect of being sent back home. The mere thought of White people sending them back elicits horror like they got told they're being shipped off to an extermination camp. On a certain level I can empathize with the ones who are less...jeeted, but they still have to go back. I mean, I get it Ranjesh, but the reason I want you sent home is the same reason you don't want to go home. I don't want India exported here. It is what it is, bud.
Maybe India could become less of a loathsome place if the Indians who aren't completely loathsome couldn't just flee their homeland to every other corner of the world while the place they came from remains a festering ulcer on the Earth. It's hard to be overly sympathetic to people so obnoxiously nationalistic and resistant to cultural assimilation abroad when it's plainly obvious they'd rather settle anywhere else.
I think the Sikhs had some success against Muslim incursions, but only because they're kind of a more coherent offshoot of the chaotic mass of Hindu cults and were able to organize themselves more effectively.
Arabs haven't really been fighting, they're just used to getting raped by bombs which is why you see a lot of Arabs in the west.
Pakistan and India have been beefing since it's inception. Before that even, the whole reason they're different countries is because they fought so much and the rulers lowk pmo and said NIGGA STOP FIGHTING.
And now Pakistanis lowk think they Arabs while indians think Pakistanis are subhuman while the rest of the world thinks indians are subhuman even indians think indians are subhuman, the Chinese nigga ones.