My hypothesis on what's going on with X & Pakistani-trolls claiming the IVC
It'll be brief -
- The Iranian protests, and the apparent readiness some of protesting Iranians had when it came to abandoning Shia Islam and reclaim pre-Islamic Persian culture, played a role in this mindset - this is the part of the new Pakistani mindset that seems organic. They genuinely lack historical culture because they're a breakaway identitarian state.
- Both X (Twitter) and VPNs are banned in Pakistan. This is
quite important: for quite some time,
- they have been banned. So there is a non-zero chance that *any* traffic originating from Pakistan is either from Pakistanis evading the ban (in which case they won't be statist or state loyal, as logic supplies here), or government propaganda bots. *This is the non-organic leg of my hypothesis*. There's just a very low chance that non Pakistani military affiliated Pakistans will parrot Pakistani propaganda.
- The abeyance of the IVC, no matter which side of the spectrum you lie on, has triggered this as unofficial policy. If they can claim that Pakistan is the home to the Indus, then they can claim that India is ruthlessly blocking a Pakistani river. They are trying this, but right now India is an upper-riparian state. The long-term play, of course, as always, is to make Kashmir relevant in the UN again
- A non-trivial part of these bots, whether they're government propaganda bots "allowed" to use Twitter for these purposes or whether they're real users, are simply trolls. They're getting a lot of cross-pollinating support from other bot accounts.
What India should do:
- IMPORTANT: Sideline the sanghi morons who keep claiming India is Bharat, unless India wants some shit like the Prepsa agreement with Pakistan. The simplest solution, even by Indian users who do believe in this )ridiculous north Indian sanghi-led) falsehood, would be to use India when writing in English, and Bharat while writing in devnagri. Saying "Bharat is going to be like this" is willfully giving up the name of the country and creating an unforced error where it doesn't exist. It won't amount to anything if it were just Pakistani attempts alone, since Indian insulation and inertia can outlast the miniscule Pakistani budget, but we do not want a naming dispute being taken to the UN.
The Indian governments PR and propaganda machinery - outside India - needs to be made more robust. It is tiring to see insufferable amounts of propaganda by the ruling party on local media, including on social media, but nothing is being done to counter nonsense where it merits countering. Instead, these idiot trolls are wasting time on disputing how terrible the caste system is or whatever other nonsense they do. Attention is really misfocused and hypocritical and its irritating that these are the best strategies India has.
There's very obviously a disconnect in the sanghi perception of how they should try to reshape indians understanding of what India is within India (a very north Indian Hindi-Hindu dominated effort), and what they want to parrot outside India. Until this is reconciled by the sanghi abandoning it's ridiculous effort, this problem will manifest into an identity crisis, whether or not people admit it.