What is Happening with India and Pakistan?

Not sure if you were making a joke, because Malmo is a mod.

Tommy2Nuttz wrote:

Both have nukes, so this is extremely worrying.

Pakistan is a known sponsor of terror (bin Laden hid out there till he was killed, they house the taliban), and India bombed a terrorist training camp.

Pakistan hit back and shot down Indian planes and captured a pilot.

This could either escalate quickly or fizzle after this series of strikes.

Surprisingly little attention being paid, not sure if thats a good thing or not.

If this escalates to an actual war, will it be the first time 2 nuclear armed countries have actually gone to war? (I know we fought proxy wars with Russia during the cold war, so I don't consider those the same thing) If so, it will be interesting to see how it will play out. My guess is that even if they get into a full blown border war, neither country would use nukes. What would be the point? You destroy a city or two of theirs as you have two or more of your cities quickly vaporized. Strategically, nukes just don't make any sense (when both countries have them). The only scenario where it would make sense to use nukes is the same scenario as the one in which they were used; you have totally neutralized the other countries ability to attack you, and you want to speed up the surrender of a particularly stubborn enemy.

To your second point, its not at all surprising how little attention is being paid to this. It is not the media's job to inform us of important information we should know. It is their job to provide information to advance their political agenda and make enough money to stay in business doing it.

Banana Beard wrote:

Sorry but I just can't get excited about this one. Invested too much time on what was the impending US Vs NK apocalypse to get all worked up again so soon. Just going to sit this particular story out...

Similar. I'm busy watching the Cuban Colectivos storm National Assembly in Venezuela.

Meanwhile, EU Economists have their own (first world) problems.

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-disintegration-of-global-capitalism-could-unleash-world-war-3-warns-top-eu-economist-769487210e8f

Singh like a bird wrote:

What's going on? Same as always. People relieving themselves in the streets (called pulling a Radcliffe), worshiping animals. SOS

And don’t forget the monumental gang rape issues! The lynchings! And the lack of any real form of birth control. I’m hoping they go nuclear and reduce the earths population by about 500 million. Win win.

India MSM is worse than in USA wrote:

https://twitter.com/ofnosurnamefame/status/1100787357052227584

It seems that India's mass media outlets are as bad as the ones in the US, Canada, UK, Australia...

How has this become a global epidemic?

Drainthefecesswamp wrote:

Careful now wrote:

Although hilarious, Letsrun mods will ban you for this type of post.

Not sure if you were making a joke, because Malmo is a mod.

It also wasn't very funny. But malmo's sense of humor is mostly derived from Seinfeld so, enough said.

Anyways, they're not going to war. Pakistan and India do this all the time and it's the same chest thumping you always see. What's more disturbing is the misinformation campaigns going on to completely muddy the waters on the truth. India changes their story every 5 minutes and Pakistan is busying spreading memes about Indian jet fighters hitting trees.

somebody set up us the bomb

celery wrote:

My guess is that even if they get into a full blown border war, neither country would use nukes. What would be the point? You destroy a city or two of theirs as you have two or more of your cities quickly vaporized. Strategically, nukes just don't make any sense (when both countries have them).

The danger is that If either side were to suffer a significant defeat on the battlefield, the use of tactical nukes would become very tempting. Just as NATO planned tu use tactical nukes to stop the Soviets in case they managed to break through the Fulda Gap.

History repeating itself. The ancient Indian texts, the Mahabharata, describes a war using nuclear weapons in prehistory.

https://www.gaia.com/article/evidence-nuclear-war-ancient-times

Racket wrote:

Anyways, they're not going to war. Pakistan and India do this all the time and it's the same chest thumping you always see.

Precisely the point of my satire above.

Racket wrote:

It also wasn't very funny. But malmo's sense of humor is mostly derived from Seinfeld so, enough said.

I see, satire and paraprosdokians are too high brow for you? Perhaps I lower it down to your humor strata and offer a poop and dick joke for your discriminating tastes?

Here’s one, courtesy of Richard Pryor:

Paki and Indi are two Punjabi neighbors who dislike each other and are always competing. They go down to the bridge to fish but after an hour neither of them catch anything. Paki gets up and walks to the other side of the bridge. He then unzips his fly and whips out his Poon-jabber.

Paki: I shall have need to release my urine into this water.

Indi: I shall have thought to release my urine before you.

Indi stands up, and he too whips out his Poon-jabber. Both let out a steady stream.

Paki: Ohhh! This water which is below shall have been veddy cold!

Indi: Yes, this cold water which is below shall have been veddy deep, too!

Paki: Woo-loo-loo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-loo!

Indi: Woo-loo-loo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-loo!

Looks like the war is over. Computer hackers successfully disable Paki and Indian nuclear control centers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5KZtFBcUx8

Abhinandan, the name of an air force pilot who became a national hero in India, is Sanskrit for “welcome,” but it isn’t good enough for the Indian premier, who decided to find another meaning because… the world is watching.

“The world takes note of what India does... India has the strength to change the meaning of words in the dictionary,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed on Saturday, apparently referring to Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was shot down, captured and later released by Pakistan.

Going further, Modi said ‘Abhinandan’ translates into English as ‘welcome,’ adding that the meaning – probably too soft for a courageous military pilot who withstood the perils of Pakistani captivity – “will change.” He didn’t say how the name should now be translated, perhaps leaving Indian patriots with no choice but to flip through their dictionaries.

Varthaman’s fierce mustache has already added heroic flavor his image, while enterprising Bollywood producers rushed to apply for rights to use the name ‘Abhinandan.’

A possible film is likely to be based on the India-Pakistan aerial skirmish in which the pilot was shot down.