That may be a long-term problem, but right now it's like worrying about high cholesterol during a knife fight.

Its not, you goto look at how the actors in the region act and invest. Some of the regions rich seem remarkable calm towards a muklear armed iran.

Can Pakistan can ship nukes to Iran fast enough for the Iranian economy to supply in return a militarily useful quantity of anti-air and anti-missile defence systems? On a timescale of "shooting currently happening"? If not, that's a problem for the rest of the decade, whereas an escalating situation on this border could've already evaporated a few cities between me having read the headline 20 minutes ago and pressing the [reply] button now.

It is not that they didn't try supplying Iran with nuclear tech.

https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/pakistan/nytimes0...

Date stamp: February 12, 2004

This is why I'm comparing nuclear trade to high cholesterol. It's a long-term issue.

The "knife fight" comparison is that they just got hit. The military needs are "literally, not metaphorically, yesterday".

Its ok, most of pakistan moved to London anyway so we dont have much to worry about.