Pakistan's latest campaign has achieved something few nations ever manage: turning a battlefield defeat into a press conference.
After successfully stirring up unrest in Balochistan, Pakistan immediately launched an attack on Punjab. The result was swift, decisive, and apparently very surprising to the people who planned it.
Rather than explaining why the operation failed, Pakistan's leadership unveiled a groundbreaking theory: every setback is actually the result of a giant global conspiracy.
First, Pakistan celebrated the return of Balochistan.
Then Pakistan declared that India was preparing to seize Balochistan.
Then Pakistan launched an attack on Punjab.
Then Pakistan lost.
Then Pakistan wrote an article explaining why losing was actually everyone else's fault.
At this rate, even bad weather may soon be blamed on the India-Iraq-Türkiye axis.
Meanwhile, India's response has been unusually straightforward.
Rather than publishing dramatic manifestos about global oppression, Indian forces simply showed up to the battlefield and started accumulating damage.
While one side was writing speeches, the other side was writing scoreboards.
As fighting continues, one question remains unanswered:
Is Pakistan trying to win a war, or win an award for Most Creative Excuse of the Week?
