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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Great!

You and your children go first to the front lines then the rest will follow.

Hello?

Where are you?

You wanted war, let's go to war! You and your children, come in, lead the banners into battle!

Hello?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

This is fine.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

K get it over with then

[–] Gurei@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Silver lining: maybe outsourcing call centers will stop being in vogue?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And they both have nukes so this ought to be interesting. And I don’t mean the fun kind of interesting.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nukes, alliances with superpowers, incredibly defensible border terrain, and dense population bases. What could go wrong?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I doubt any of the allies are joining this one...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's what they said about the Crimean War

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

And that was a severe miscalculation by the Russian Tsar, since the UK and France had a vested interest in preventing Russian expansion.

If we look at India v Pakistan, which powers actually care? Neither group is expansionist, and each side's allies are strained at best. Pakistan is kind of allied to the US, but they pretty much pissed off the US w/ the whole Osama bin Laden thing. India has purchased equipment from Russia, but there's no way Russia is getting involved in another conflict right now. I don't know who would actually help either side. If anything, this could end the US/Pakistan alliance, or whatever we're calling it these days, since the US really doesn't want to get involved in wars at the moment.

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I feel the US would want to sit this one out or even take the side of India. We do so much business in India, particularly in tech.

Not to mention our current regime seems to favor Russia so if Russia likes India....

Maybe. But we also like Pakistan because they hate Iran.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well it's a good thing the current US President is so level headed and history literate.

You don't need to be level headed or particularly well informed to decide getting involved in a war on the other side of the world isn't really something you want to do.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The tiny thumbnail looks like Bob Barker.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

"The price is wrong, bitch!"