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Delhi, Mumbai & 5 other cities put on 'highest alert'
Time of India ^ | 1-26-2019 | Raj Shekhar

Posted on 02/26/2019 6:56:42 PM PST by tcrlaf

Anticipating a Pakistani retaliation to the Balakot bombin ..

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; balakot; china; delhi; india; islam; jaishemohammed; jihad; kashmir; mumbai; muslims; pakistan; pulwama
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Things are heating up, it seems. Talk of artillery exchanges overnight.

Per Twitter, Pompeo spoke with Pakistan, and then talked to India. Immediately after the call, India put armed forces on Alert.

1 posted on 02/26/2019 6:56:42 PM PST by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

“The Eastern World, it is exploding...”


2 posted on 02/26/2019 6:58:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Maybe the world needs a small nuclear war to remind people of what nukes can do.


3 posted on 02/26/2019 6:59:30 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: tcrlaf

History rhyming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965

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4 posted on 02/26/2019 7:00:25 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: tcrlaf

Wow! This is scary, thinking of the Mumbai hotel tragedy ten years ago. Who the heck ever allowed the savage nation of Pakistan to get nuclear weapons?.Historians, please enlighten me.


5 posted on 02/26/2019 7:02:39 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Publius

Some Freepers here said that the last use was about 1971.


6 posted on 02/26/2019 7:04:55 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: dfwgator
“The Eastern World, it is exploding...”

The United States of America is not far behind.

7 posted on 02/26/2019 7:05:44 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: dfwgator

Haven’t heard or thought about Barry Maguire in at least forty years.


8 posted on 02/26/2019 7:08:57 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: dfwgator; null and void; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal

And between two nuclear powers with a long history.....


9 posted on 02/26/2019 7:09:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: miserare

“Who the heck ever allowed the savage nation of Pakistan to get nuclear weapons? Historians, please enlighten me.”

Abdul Qadeer Khan.

And there is more to his story...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan


10 posted on 02/26/2019 7:10:10 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

And Iran, IIRC....


11 posted on 02/26/2019 7:12:22 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris
Matthew 24:6 comes to mind.
12 posted on 02/26/2019 7:12:40 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Yep. Sounds about right.


13 posted on 02/26/2019 7:13:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


14 posted on 02/26/2019 7:15:33 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SaveFerris

Both nations are overpopulated.


15 posted on 02/26/2019 7:16:04 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SaveFerris

In any such exchange Pakistan is the looser based on population and land mass.


16 posted on 02/26/2019 7:17:41 PM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That also seems like a condition that can lead up to war. Especially an excessive number of males to females (see China).


17 posted on 02/26/2019 7:18:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Fai Mao

TFTI


18 posted on 02/26/2019 7:18:38 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Fai Mao

Plant a few in Pakistan and set them off if it escalates. No one will think we did it.


19 posted on 02/26/2019 7:19:06 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SaveFerris
And between two nuclear powers with a long history.....

If I understand correctly while Pakistan is a nuclear power, India is a THERMO-nuclear power.

20 posted on 02/26/2019 7:21:50 PM PST by papertyger (America: former Constitutional Republic to current Oligarchy.)
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