India Pakistan heating up.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3308428/why-pakistan-india-war-would-be-chinese-vs-western-arms-proving-ground

Pakistan’s arsenal of Chinese-made and jointly developed weapons could clash with India’s mix of French, Russian and domestically produced military hardware amid rising warnings of an “imminent” conflict between the South Asian rivals.

China, the US and the rest of the international community have expressed hopes that tensions between the nuclear-armed adversaries will not escalate into a full-blown war. Still, many observers are closely monitoring a potential first-ever confrontation between Chinese military assets and Nato-standard weaponry.

Should war break out between Pakistan and India, the performance of their weapons would be closely analysed by military planners around the world, and lessons integrated into national defence strategies – particularly in the Indo-Pacific strategic theatre, where China and the US are engaged in a fierce geopolitical competition.

[jon-nyc]

And so it begins?

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[LuFins Dad]

Fortunately, we have a statesman and a diplomat leading the nation and the free world. I’m confident in his ability to…

Is it time to move drinking from an avocation to a full time vocation?

[Mik]

Well just doublefuck.

[Renauda]

Perhaps FuCa can get the ice cream Field Marshal, Ben Cohen, to weigh in on this conflict as well.

[jon-nyc]

So it now appears 2 nuclear powers are going to war.

[jon-nyc]

India to halt water flows to Paki Stan Pakistan.

Pakistan has previously said this would be an ‘act of war’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9l9qwyv23o

[Mik]

Seems a bit anticlimactic. Lobbing missiles seems kind of warlike.