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Posted on 05/09/2025 11:13:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947. They’ve also had dozens of skirmishes and conflicts, including one atop a glacier dubbed the coldest and highest-altitude battlefield in the world.
The latest escalation follows a deadly gun attack on tourists that India blames Pakistan for — Islamabad denies any connection. But they don’t fight wars like other countries.
The dominant factor is their nuclear weapons arsenal, a distinct way of deterring major attacks and a guarantee that fighting doesn’t get out of hand, even when the situation is spiraling.
Here’s how — and why — India and Pakistan fight the way they do:
Their nuclear arsenals can destroy each other
“Pakistan and India have enough nuclear weapons to wipe the other side out several times over,” says security analyst Syed Mohammed Ali, who is based in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. “Their nuclear weapons create a scenario for mutually assured destruction.”
Both countries have “deliberately developed” the size and range of their stockpile to remind the other about the guarantee of mutually assured destruction, he adds.
Neither country discloses their nuclear capabilities but each is thought to have between 170 and 180 warheads that are short-, long- and medium-range. Both countries have different delivery systems — ways of launching and propelling these weapons to their targets.
The arsenals are a defensive move to prevent and deter further fighting, because “neither side can afford to initiate such a war or hope to achieve anything from it,” Ali says.
It might not look this way to the outsider, but nuclear weapons are a reminder to the other side that they can’t take things too far.
But the secrecy around their arsenals means that it’s unclear if Pakistan or India can survive a first nuclear strike and retaliate,...
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They could kill most of its urbanized elite, however, and wreck its economy. So that's probably deterrent enough.
Video: Typical Indian vs. Pakistani confrontation:
(Warning: Bad Language)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x795bne
Not a unique situation. It sounds like the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Rumor on the streets, MI-6/CIA involved on Pakistan’s side. Stupid if true, they are more than capable of such stupidity.
Huggy Bear lives!
Their next cricket match will be epic. LOL
WHO CARES
All the wargame outcomes predict that once a single nuke flies the entire world will be engulfed in nuclear war within hours.
But why should you care as long as you have your bread and circuses?
More popcorn !
They were both former British colonies. It’s their problem.
Two sides that hate each other’s guts.
One side believes that if they die in battle against the infidel, they go to heaven with 72 virgins at their disposal.
The other side believes in reincarnation, so theoretically you never really die.
What could go wrong here?
The other side believes in reincarnation, so theoretically you never really die.
So they have that going for them.
Have a nice day, bye bye...
I wonder if there would have ever been a Pakistan if Britain hadn’t invaded India and colonized it.
That is utter crap.
If India and Pak start lobbing nukes, I am sure the phone lines between the remaining nuclear countries would ring off the hook. There would be agreement to get them to stop ASAP.
China would be concerned because all of the crap will fall on them due to the prevailing winds.
There would be zero reason for any other country to set off a nuke. Zero.
Comments like yours are hyperbolic and suggest that the people in charge of these things are brain-dead automatons. They are not.
Coulda fooled me.
They’re shooting at each other and bombing each other like most countries do.
And still today...perhaps more so.
China would be concerned because all of the crap will fall on them due to the prevailing winds.
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They should have thought about that before they helped Paki build nukes and missiles.
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