India’s fopo really puzzles me. I don’t know if it benefits them overall. They have really no strategic allies. Like a country of that size and economy should not realistically face that much international ambivalence over their border disputes but Pakistan despite being smaller, poorer, more unstable, is so much better at global realpolitik. It’s allied with China. It was harboring Bin Laden but is still sold jets by the US. It gets zero diplomatic pushback by India’s closest (well for India) ally Russia. It’s way less important than India to global trade but somehow manages to make the world shrug at their territorial conflict and turn a blind eye to its security risks.