JD Vance: US will stay out of India-Pakistan conflict
Washington will not intervene in the military conflict raging between the neighbouring nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, because it is 'fundamentally none of our business', JD Vance has said.
In an interview with Fox News, the US vice president said that the conflict, triggered by the massacre of 26 tourists in Pahalgam in Kashmir last month, was 'none of America's business'.
'What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit,' he said. 'But we're not going to get involved in the middle of a war that's fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it.'
His comments came as further deaths were reported after cross-border tit-for-tat exchanges between the countries, with each
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