Why do you think PM is going to Palestine? Past so many years the south block never had guts to make visit to the middle east and this is the reason India remained of low importance in that region even though there are so many Indians working there.
Was there no Oil in 1971 during peak of cold war? Or there was no oil during 1999.
All this fuzz of Oil can easily be countered by Pakistan's own rhetoric of nuclear war. What will petro dollars will do if Pakistan threatens of nuclear exchange?
It's just India's own lack of reluctance when Americans wanted Indian in Afg, well for that era it was a good decision but now? Even Chinese are there.
Come on man.
Rhetoric vs facts. The blood of this industrial world is OIL. Nuclear bomb is just a bigger bomb. There was oil in 1971 too but that time India was not reliant on imports. Also, India was filled with degenerate people who were worse than animals. By all means and standards, in 1947, all muslims must have been expelled to Pakistan as population exchange. In 1971 too, India must have attacked in April itself and must have called for religious warfare. But Nehru and Indira were of flawed character and hence botched up deliberately.
In 1999 there was oil and hence it was not a full scale war. India was pathetically weak and had hopeless military capability because of which India did not react well. The decades of negligence and lack of research had made India weak. So, Pakistan was emboldened. Nevertheless, Pakistan did not escalate beyond a point and hence India too did not escalate. Oil prevented an escalation in 1999 and 2001. India would have launched missiles otherwise and things would have been different.
Palestine trip is an act of diplomacy and there is nothing of substance. India doesn't want to appear overtly hostile and hence gimmicks. As a saying goes: Don't point a gun if you are unwilling to shoot.
The militarisation of the world began in WW2. India has benefited from WW2 as lots of arms manufacturing was done in India by British to help in WW2. India was almost in the same level as other countries in technology, maybe with a lag of 5-10 years. The technology was mostly mechanical and could have been reverse engineered. China developed almost all technology - nuclear submarine, hydrogen bomb, ICBM, Space Launch Vehicle by 1975 despite being destroyed in the war and getting independence in 1949. India could have achieved the same military capability as China but Nehru scuttled it.
Considering all this historical blunders, India was weak till full scale militarisation was begun by Vajpayee. So, Pakistan was alarmed and tried to scuttle it before it took off by 1999 Kargil war and 2001 parliament attack.
Wow!! This is a first! (SLOW CLAP) Pls read up about blast radius, shock wave and the destructive capability of even a 10kt nuke.
Please read it yourself. I have well researched on this nuclear bomb already and I am speaking based on facts. You are speaking on fears and rumours.
Give me source for your claims by real life experience/experiments, not by some cowards spreading rumours or making apps of blast effect.