Ex-US official: US can’t resolve India-Pakistan conflict

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00:00President Trump, in terms of what we've been hearing on this tension between Pakistan and India,

00:05says it's a shame, says he hopes the two nations won't escalate further.

00:10I mean, it sounds from that sort of language like there's not much appetite

00:14for any kind of U.S. involvement at this stage.

00:17Does that sound reasonable?

00:20I think that sounds exactly right.

00:23First, again, thank you for having me.

00:25The president made these comments in sort of an offhanded way.

00:29There's no evidence of any active U.S. involvement, as there have been in prior administrations

00:35when tensions have flared between India and Pakistan.

00:39And the U.S. relationship with Pakistan has been very fraught.

00:42Trump has had a good relationship with Prime Minister Modi in India,

00:47but the U.S. ability to influence Pakistan was never much, and it probably doesn't exist at all.

00:53So the U.S. role, I think, is going to be pretty much as a cheerleader for peace,

00:57whether that peace happens or war happens.

00:59The U.S. will just say, let's go for peace, but won't be able to do anything useful.