In the spring of 2025, just months before India’s Lok Sabha elections, a thundering announcement gripped Indian television screens: the Indian Air Force had carried out a precision airstrike on “terror infrastructure” in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Dubbed Operation Sindoor, the strike echoed the 2019 Balakot operation—another militarized maneuver that boosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval ratings […]The post Missiles and mandates: Will Indian democracy fuel nuclear war? appeared first on Asia Times.