If the Pakis get wiped out, maybe the guy at “Windows” will stop calling...
There won’t be a conventional war. India may be superior militarily but no nuclear armed country has ever experienced a determined conventional invasion of its territory, lost territory or been forced into an unfavorable peace. That is why like it or not nations such as Iran, the Ukraine, Egypt North Korea and others are openly or seeking to become armed with nuclear weapons.
I would pull for India to win since I really like curry.
I’ll bet you can’t find a plate of pork vindaloo anywhere in Pakistan.
One of the many perceptive things I wrote here after 9/11 was that Bush should be in New Delhi by the end of the next week to arrange the conquest and dissolution of Pakistan.
Best thing that could happen to the world is for both of these countries to kill each other off, reducing the ignorant tribal population of the world by something like 25%.
India didn’t “side with the Soviets” in the cold war. They were founding members of the Non-aligned movement and tried to avoid being wrapped around the axle for either camp.
But it did freak them out when we signed a treaty alliance with the Pakistani psychos. They bought equipment from the Soviets but were not in any military alliance with them in the sense that Warsaw pact nations, North Vietnam, and other were. India never got into the world revolution thing.
India has never acted belligerent towards the USA, even when it had MiG-21s flying in it’s Air Force. It’s a stretch to say they were siding with the USSR.
I am not sure that either of them actually has a reliable nuclear threat. I wouldn’t bet Islamabad on it though. India has far more experience launching payloads, a very low bar, but still that makes India a much more creditable nuclear power.
Their shared MAD abilities will either keep any military exchange as conventional, small and limited or deter even that. Besides, Pakistan can’t afford it and India, striving for the building of its economy, does not want any big expensive war.
I don’t care if they wipe each other out, as long as Trump doesn’t throw us in.
The fewer saracens in the world, the better it is for all of us.
Can’t they just have a nice Cricket Test Match and decide everything there?
China is not going to war with the US over Pakistan or any other country. We are to close, that’s to Donald John Trump.
“China doesn’t care-should we”?
NO
let them kill each other until it hurts.
Oddly I just read an editorial in India Times that was explicitly headlined “Pakistan Must Die”. The author was serious, and made a good case, for reasons that I believe most FReepers would agree with.
I remember the uneasiness between the two in the run-up to the invasion of IAfghanistan. That was nerve-wracking.
I remember the uneasiness between the two in the run-up to the invasion of IAfghanistan. That was nerve-wracking.