Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday to have “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days.

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Isn’t this just India posturing because of the Kashmir attack? The first threat about cutting off water was an empty one so now they are floating some military strike just to appear thst they care? I may eat my words here, but neither party is going to risk a full on war with an enemy with nukes over a place like Kashmir.

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Always telling whenever terrorists attack non-white people and nobody seems to care or even notice.

It’s like I have to find out on my own on a gore site that an attack even happened at all.

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Wtf are you on about, it was all over the Internet.

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Really? I found out about it by seeing videos on Kaotic, then when I checked youtube to see what’s up all of the reports had <1M views days after airing.

Doesn’t really sound like “all over the internet to me,” but you seem like someone who doesn’t have a grasp on how massive the internet has become.

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What type of response do you hope to elicit by discounting everyone’s experience but your own and insulting the intelligence of those who engage with you?

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Literally covered on every single news site lol.

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It’s probably the Internet bubble thing, I saw news about it and the development of things afterwards, I’m hoping a war doesn’t break out but there is jack shit we can do about it.

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Stop reading the news.

If it happens it happens. If you see the flash, lay down prone on the ground with your head towards it and your hands covering your face. Otherwise until that happens, just carry on as normal with your life

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Not how I wanted to solve global warming.

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ITT people claiming this could be a WW3 starter. Even if India engaged Pakistan militarily, I fail to see how that would lead to anything larger than a localised conflict.

Like, neither country is geopolitically significant enough for any major players to care at that level. Sure, India getting bogged down in war could affect supply chains around the world, but would any of the heavyweights like US, China, Russia or a semi-relevant NATO country think that would be worth their involvement? If Russia being on year 11 of their military invasion of a NATO-bordering country hasn’t sparked a world war yet, I don’t see how this would either.

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If Modi thinks it’ll help him stay in power, he’d probably do it.

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Since when is India not a major player? Last I checked they were the world’s 4th biggest economy, have almost 20% of the population of the planet (more than four USes combined), 4th largest military spend and have nearly 200 nukes.

Not to say that it would be part of a world war but it sounds weird to say that they’re not a heavyweight but Russia is, despite having double Russia’s economic output.

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They both have nukes though

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They’ve had these border skirmishes and terrorist attacks about every 2-3 years for the last 50 years without resorting to nukes.

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Agree with everything you’ve said. They only thing is China has been contesting a North Western border with India for some time so they might take the opportunity for some shenanigans.

Still don’t see it escalating beyond regional though as you said.

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