US military strategist slams Trump admin for not blocking IMF aid to Pak
NEW DELHI: Michael Rubin, a military strategist with a conservative-leaning US think tank, American Enterprise Institute, has faulted the Trump administration for facilitating a $1 billion IMF bailout package to Pakistan, particularly at a time when the latter is seen as sponsoring terrorists' as a state policy.
'By sending money to Pakistan, the IMF is also effectively bailing out China. Pakistan is today a satrapy of China, its Gwadar port was the original pearl on China's string, and its China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has put Islamabad $40 billion in the red,' said Rubin, who taught at the Naval Postgraduate School till 2021.
Rubin joined other international American security experts in asserting that India scored a victory in the four-day limited conflict with Pakistan, calling out the latter's bluff on inflicting a cost on New Delhi. Instead, he said, it was Islamabad that 'went running like a scared dog with its tail between its legs' to achieve a ceasefire.
'There is absolutely no spin Pak military can put on what occurred to shield themselves from the full reality of the fact that they not only lost, but they lost very, very badly,' Rubin says in a video comment, dismantling the propaganda peddled by Islamabad, still smarting from a complete defeat under Indian attack on its crucial air bases and critical military installations.
In an Op-Ed on Wednesday, Rubin blasted US for not blocking IMF releasing a $1 billion bailout package to Pakistan, one of the 'world's most corrupt countries'. He further says that the IMF move came after Pak-based terrorists infiltrated India and executed non-Muslims in front of their families.
The military strategist said that to release $1 billion to a terror-addled, pro-China regime at a time the White House has been seeking to de-escalate tensions between two nuclear states was not just about Pakistan; it was about the IMF thumbing its nose at President Donald Trump.
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