The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Oh, I'm sure the American State Department can, oh who the **** am I kidding we gonna die.

I’d rather go this way than being locked in a Factory Rest of my life

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I did not have global warming being solved by nuclear winter on my bingo card.

Have you asked your neighbor yet if this is serious?

 

[Kepler]

The World Bank guy on BBC just said "we have to think creatively" and "this could trigger new investments."

Nobody in the ruling class has had the least geopolitical understanding since Metternich.

 

[Kepler]

Kenya. Nice throw.

 

[Kepler]

I did not have global warming being solved by nuclear winter on my bingo card.

This has been a staple of rightwing "humor" for years.

 

[Kepler]

Indian cable news should come with a seizure warning.

(It is run by a Modi lackey, so be prepared for RT or Fox level propaganda and stupidity.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Maybe China will escalate at the Line of Control

 

[Kepler]

I assume China wants them both to cut the shit.

 

[ticapnews]

I did not have global warming being solved by nuclear winter on my bingo card.

I actually did, but I assumed the missiles would come from 2500 miles northwest of India/Pakistan

 

[dxmnkd316]

It’s worth noting that even a small nuclear exchange limited to just India and Pakistan probably sends the world into a real bad place. Nine to ten figure death toll.

 

[ticapnews]

Holy shit, the intro to the conflict on India Today just now makes anything on Fox News look like a bad high school A/V project. I hope China can settle them down or there's going to be a few mushroom clouds over the region soon

 

[ScoobyDoo]

So, what exactly is India and Pakistan trying to accomplish? Or, didn't they see the results of Ukraine, Gaza, Iraq, and Afghanistan from recent history?

 

[Kepler]

So, what exactly is India and Pakistan trying to accomplish? Or, didn't they see the results of Ukraine, Gaza, Iraq, and Afghanistan from recent history?

Imagine two demcratic-ish countries dominated by Dump-like parties, so the leader has to constantly project DURR I AM STRONG DURR, with enormous numbers of Likudlike nationalist-religious sociopaths baying for heathen blood.

Texas at war with Mississippi over control of Louisiana. And everybody has nukes.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

So, it's even dumber than I originally thought. Good to know.

 

[Kepler]

So, it's even dumber than I originally thought. Good to know.

But also scarier, because the pandering and posturing part means even if the leaders know better they still go along with it to protect their wrinkled old asses. Again, like the GOP.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Well, if China doesn't want to die they'll have to figure it out. The United States is not reliable, nor does it give a shit anymore about the rest of the World.

 

[Kepler]

Well, if China doesn't want to die they'll have to figure it out. The United States is not reliable, nor does it give a shit anymore about the rest of the World.

I don't know what leverage China has, or what effective tools they have. As you say, we are useless now. This is China's first test as the de facto new world #1.

Fig. 1: Pakistan, China, and India. Not pictured: America, a drunk in the gutter.

 

[Kepler]

It is interesting to see the Modi NDTV coverage. It is just like Putin RT, Dump Fox or Bibi Channel 14.

Any Indian missile strike is on "terror camps." Even if it's a hospital and all the casualties are children.

Those terror children. Ya really gotta watch em.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Texas at war with Mississippi over control of Louisiana. And everybody has nukes.

You really could just boil it down to this, and throw in religion and a shitty colonial exit by the limeys.

Pakistan wants Kashmir because it's majority Muslim. India wants Kashmir, ostensibly because it was historically part of "their" territory, but mainly because they fear Muslims. Both wanted to rig the 1947 Kashmir referendum established by the Brits, so Pakistan sent in militia groups and India responded by getting the last prince of Kashmir to request help from the Indian military. Two years later, the UN established the Line of Control and it's been that way ever since.

 

[Kepler]

I suppose China could do a fait accompli: send 50 million men (that's, like, one small Chinese town) into Kashmir, declare a referendum, let the troops vote, and vote for independence as a buffer state completely within their sphere of influence. Keep a garrison and tell both dot and towel: ATTEMPT NO LANDING HERE.