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Re:India and Pakistan are choking on each other’s pollution by dartharva on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:32PM (#34793820)
India has full confidence in the incompetence of its cute little neighbour. Look at that country's condition right now, it is on its knees with a crippled economy and dysfunctional administration.

How can a country that has consistently shown itself to not be capable of even regular state governance be an existential threat? Just because it got nuclear tech in the cold war? Lol give me a break.

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Re:India and Pakistan are choking on each other’s pollution by throwayyy479087 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:34PM (#34793853)
That's exactly what an existential threat looks like - desperate for an external enemy to blame. Consider Putin, Hitler, etc - when things are properly screwed, the easiest thing for a leader to do is blame then annihilate their neighbors.

Nuclear weapons mean that poor troop training means nothing. Trucking a bomb into New Delhi has never been difficult.

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