Sarah Paine

And also in the Kargil conflict, when Pakistan is yet again trying to resolve Kashmir by invading and then gets itself into trouble,

And this guy, Nawaz Sharif, who was the head of Pakistan, he all of a sudden gets on a plane with his family, it looks like he's coming into exile, and he's trying to fly into the United States.

The United States go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you think you're doing?

And says, you're not coming in here until you admit that you crossed the line of control, and then you need to get right back.

And so he agrees to sign the Washington agreement to go right back.

But it's absolutely humiliating for the Pakistanis to go, oh, yeah, we went south of the line of control.

And then, well, that didn't work out.

So now we have to go right back.

He had gone to China first.

already and pleaded his case to the Chinese.

And they told him to get right back because there was a lot of nuclear saber rattling going on and the Chinese were not interested in nuclear war over this.

So Pakistan had the choice of, okay, fight India by your lonesome or cross back.

So they crossed back.

And there were other cases in the inter-co-war period when the great powers cooperated and tamped things down like terrorist incidents in New Delhi and in Mumbai that didn't go anywhere because the great powers told the Indians and the Pakistanis to just dial it back.

All right.

Another thing you can do is to publicly support someone.

And this is what goes on with Goa, which is a Portuguese colony.

The Indians wanted it back.

The Portuguese said, no way, you cannot have it back.

And the Indians took it back, and the United States supported Portugal.