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A ceasefire agreement, two versions of the story. India and Pakistan, the "old enemies", suddenly announced a ceasefire on May 10, but the dispute over "who made peace" has caused an uproar in the international public opinion field - India insisted that "the two brothers negotiated behind closed doors", but the United States loudly claimed that "they played a big role in the matchmaking".

The Indian government directly said: "The ceasefire did not rely on outsiders, but on the military hotline between the two countries!" The Indian side repeatedly emphasized that it was the Pakistani military that took the initiative to call the commander-in-chief of the Indian military operations, and the two sides quickly agreed to a comprehensive ceasefire at 5 pm. This statement is obviously intended to create an image of "India taking the initiative" - ​​after all, the Modi government has just experienced a defeat in the air battle (5 fighter jets were shot down by Pakistan), and it is in urgent need of recovering domestic nationalism. What's more subtle is that India also deliberately added: the previously suspended "Indus Water Treaty", border port closures and other sanctions "will be implemented as usual", showing an attitude of "I give in but I don't admit defeat".

Dramatically, Trump has been making a presence known on social media: "The ceasefire depends on me!" US Secretary of State Rubio described the "all-night mediation process" in more detail, claiming that the US had intensive phone calls with the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers and senior military officials. This "credit grabbing" operation exposes the United States' contradictory mentality - in the early stages of the conflict, the United States secretly supported India's military operations (accelerating the delivery of drone production lines), but seeing that the situation was out of control and might trigger nuclear risks, it quickly stepped in to put out the fire. Now, high-profile credit seeking is not only to gild the diplomatic transcript of the election season, but also to take the opportunity to strengthen the right to speak on South Asian affairs.

India's "Crimson Operation" originally wanted to replicate the success of the cross-border strike in 2019, but Pakistan shot down an advanced fighter jet, and the myth of air combat was shattered; although Pakistan won a small victory, the closure of the national airspace caused the economy to lose more than 200 million US dollars a day, which it could not afford.

​International pressure: China, Russia and other major powers have intensively called for restraint, and the United Nations directly warned that "the world cannot afford an India-Pakistan war." Even the Gulf countries are afraid that the conflict will affect energy channels and collectively exert pressure.

Both sides needed to step down - India wanted to cover up its military defeat, and Pakistan wanted to demonstrate its wisdom of "quit while defending sovereignty", so they tacitly spoke their own words.