Operation Sindoor LIVE: India-Pakistan, Anwar Ibrahim, and The Biased Mediator Saga

Pakistan wins the war against India

Ah, Malaysia. How wonderful, how stable. Such a robust economy with wonderful exports, such as semiconductors, palm oil, and now, foreign interference. Welcome back, sepupus!

If you’ve been on the internet recently, you’d know that India and Pakistan are on the verge of a war. If you’re reading this at any time after the time this video was published, there’s a chance that it already is a full-blown war. Either way, war is horrible, war is deplorable.

And so, it was an interesting surprise when everyone received a hero that nobody needed — Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar is Prime Minister of Malaysia, but after now moving past his Prime Minister of Palestine and Prime Minister of Malaysia roles, he has now decided to take on the role of Prime Minister of Pakistan.

What a wonderful showcase of his world-leading capacities, we can see — even as he is casually crucified by the Indian media and Firstpost’s Palki Sharma for his beautiful comments on the conflict.

Now one could argue that he was simply petitioned by Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif, Asif Munir, and Khawaja Asif because they wanted to chut pattern, as Singapore’s PAP’s Sim Ann might say, and certainly, they had succeeded with past Malaysian leaders and aren’t entirely irrational to have approached Anwar… but quoting a slightly more English source — those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Clearly, Malaysia has its fair share of troubles and has no business pointing out the issues of another country or with its minorities, even as the population of this country is casually weaponizing this issue in order to oppress the minorities in his own country.

It takes a certain suspension of disbelief, I think, to be a Prime Minister of Malaysia — especially Anwar, who seems to still think that he is an ABIM leader, perhaps to no discredit of his own, given that ABIM came out and tried to defend him, calling India unprofessional — as if anybody had asked them to make a statement and even as he continues a pattern of unwanted interference that is similarly characteristic of other less important people like PAS.

Why is he submitting to this kind of low-class behaviour? Is it just because, allegedly, he is part of the same group? Same faith? Manipulated by Tun Mahathir to care about this when fundamentally this is none of his business even as he forgets which country is more important at the end of the day? And even if he is, why should he be interfering in what is primarily a bilateral dispute?

The people of Malaysia generally have no idea — both the smart ones, who realize that this is a stupid move, and the people who are too stupid to really understand global affairs in any other way apart from that if people share the same religion as me, I must support them no matter what, unconditionally, without questioning anything at all. It is truly fascinating to watch them in action — but it is not particularly inspiring. After all, Malaysia’s Prime Minister is not a Lee Kuan Yew.

But if he would like to start? Perhaps he can start by minding his own business.