Vice President Vance acknowledged Thursday that a full-scale war between India and Pakistan would be "disastrous" but said the United States shouldn’t get involved in the escalating conflict.
“Look, we're concerned about any time nuclear powers collide and have a major conflict,” Vance told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum. "What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not going to get involved in the middle of war that's fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it."
Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have been teetering on the brink of military conflict, after alleged Pakistani terrorists launched a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month. India responded this week with missile strikes that New Dheli leaders said targeted terrorist training sites in Pakistan.
Vance, who was in India on a diplomatic trip at the time of the Kashmir assault, said in the interview this week that it's up to the two countries to resolve their issues before waging war.
"Our hope and our expectation is that this is not going to spiral into a broader regional war or, God forbid, a nuclear conflict," Vance told MacCallum. "Sure, we're worried about these things, but I think the job of diplomacy — but also the job of cooler heads in India and Pakistan — is to make sure this doesn't become a nuclear war."
President Trump previously called the Kashmir resort attack that left more than two dozen tourists dead "deeply disturbing."
"[Indian] Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi, and the incredible people of India, have our full support and deepest sympathies," Trump wrote April 22 in a post on Truth Social, just hours after the strike. "Our hearts are with you all!"
The president said this week that the continuing ordeal "is a shame," upon hearing news about India's retaliatory attacks, but said that it wasn't a surprise.
"I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past," he told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. "They’ve been fighting for a long time — many, many decades and centuries, actually."
"I just hope it ends very quickly," Trump added.
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