Modi spells out the new normal in dealing with terror
The bit about nuclear blackmail was also directed at Trump, as he and a few other world leaders had become uneasy amid claims of Pakistan considering a strategic response. Word had gone out that a meeting of the National Command Authority, the apex body on Pakistan's nuclear weapons, had been called. This sent the global community into overdrive and Trump later claimed credit for averting a nuclear flashpoint. A similar drama was enacted in the wake of the Pulwama attack and the Balakot counterstrike in 2019, but India and the then Trump administration showed steel by staring Pakistan down.
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