India, Pakistan, and the nuclear dance: Recent hostilities between Pakistan and India have deep roots and global significance, according to this video published by the WSJ (watch, runtime: 2:47). While decades-long tensions have continued to constitute “a dangerous and delicate dance that’s scary to watch,” in the last 45 years the two countries have managed to avoid all-out war. And with Pakistan’s release on Friday of an Indian pilot captured in Kashmir, it seems as though a showdown between the two nuclear powers has been avoided. But is this a real de-escalation or the start of something much more serious?

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