Pakistan military accuses India of violating airspace

[Secure Da Bag]

I don't think that's the issue. I imagine the damage would come from nuclear fallout damaging crops in other regions...

Good point.

 

[88m3]

Washington Post
10 hrs ·
There are no signs of de-escalation as Pakistan captures an Indian pilot.


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Analysis | Looming behind the India-Pakistan tensions: Two growing nuclear arsenals
Both countries are aware of the risks.

 

[Sukairain]

That poster looks like a Coli photoshopped smiley :mjbey:

 

[Sukairain]

How much food does India and Pakistan produce for this to be true?

I don't know about the volume of global exports, but both historically and today, a fukkton. South Asia is extraordinarily fertile, and it has almost always been the most populated region in the world throughout history. It is today, with a total population of 1.9 billion. It is half the size of Europe in landmass but 2.5 times greater in population, it is one-sixth the size of Africa but over 1.5 times more populous. If poverty was not an issue and everybody could afford to buy food, then the region would be entirely self-sufficient and not need any imports or food aid from overseas.

Food Security in South Asia: Performance and Prospects on JSTOR

The reason the region can support such a vast population is because it is so agriculturally productive. But most of the fertile lands are concentrated in two regions, Punjab and Bengal, which span India and Pakistan and India and Bangladesh respectively. This makes those regions especially valuable strategically, and that's where Kashmir comes in. Punjab is serviced by five enormous rivers, which is why it's such a fertile place. All of these rivers spring from the Himalayas, from glaciers in Kashmir. Whoever controls Kashmir controls the water supply to Punjab, and therefore they have a choke-hold on South Asia's food supply. One of the threats from India recently was to shut off dams which would remove the water flow into the Pakistani part of Punjab overnight whilst keeping Indian Punjab productive.

So the religious and tribalist aspect is just a smokescreen for the real value of Kashmir, which lies in its glaciers.

 

[Wild self]

It ain't the end of the world if they throw down and drop them thangs..

We live in the same planet as them and breathe in the same atmosphere. The radiation from the nuclear fallout will come to the Americas and fukk up the ecosystem as we know it.

 

[FAH1223]

if true

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

4 killed after India and Pakistan resume shelling in Kashmir

Welp

 

[88m3]

The New York Times
1 hr ·
Intense shelling erupted along the disputed border between India and Pakistan on Saturday, killing several civilians and making it clear that hostilities between the 2 nuclear-armed nations were hardly over.


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Deadly Shelling Erupts in Kashmir Between India and Pakistan After Pilot Is Freed
Several civilians died in intense shelling as the region remained jittery even though tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors had subsided considerably.

 

[Json]

Why has Jared not solved this already???

 

[88m3]

Why has Jared not solved this already???

Maybe saving those fireworks for Trump's second or third term or maybe Jared's first!


I can see it now "Jared denuclearizes India and Pakistan, Doomsday Clock turned off!"

 

[AB Ziggy]

Why can't india , pakistan & turkey come together as 1

Turkey?

 

[JDH]

I don't know about the volume of global exports, but both historically and today, a fukkton. South Asia is extraordinarily fertile, and it has almost always been the most populated region in the world throughout history. It is today, with a total population of 1.9 billion. It is half the size of Europe in landmass but 2.5 times greater in population, it is one-sixth the size of Africa but over 1.5 times more populous. If poverty was not an issue and everybody could afford to buy food, then the region would be entirely self-sufficient and not need any imports or food aid from overseas.

Food Security in South Asia: Performance and Prospects on JSTOR

The reason the region can support such a vast population is because it is so agriculturally productive. But most of the fertile lands are concentrated in two regions, Punjab and Bengal, which span India and Pakistan and India and Bangladesh respectively. This makes those regions especially valuable strategically, and that's where Kashmir comes in. Punjab is serviced by five enormous rivers, which is why it's such a fertile place. All of these rivers spring from the Himalayas, from glaciers in Kashmir. Whoever controls Kashmir controls the water supply to Punjab, and therefore they have a choke-hold on South Asia's food supply. One of the threats from India recently was to shut off dams which would remove the water flow into the Pakistani part of Punjab overnight whilst keeping Indian Punjab productive.

So the religious and tribalist aspect is just a smokescreen for the real value of Kashmir, which lies in its glaciers.

I'm reading this book on British colonization of India and apparently at the start of the 18th century India's share of the global economy was 23%, as large as all of Europe put together, but when the British left it had dropped to about 3%

 

[Sukairain]

I'm reading this book on British colonization of India and apparently at the start of the 18th century India's share of the global economy was 23%, as large as all of Europe put together, but when the British left it had dropped to about 3%

250 year long recession the Indian economy saw negative growth throughout the entire colonial occupation. Even the population didn't grow which is astonishing for such a long period of time to have zero population growth.

The British like to fool themselves into thinking it was a good thing. "We built railways!" "We ended the Islamic tyranny!" etc. The evidence clearly shows otherwise, if it was good for anybody, it certainly wasn't good for India. Not to mention the Muslim kingdoms had been getting their ass handed to them by Hindu kingdoms for a good century before the British showed up, it's not like we needed their help to restore Hindu freedom

 

[Red Shield]

I'm reading this book on British colonization of India and apparently at the start of the 18th century India's share of the global economy was 23%, as large as all of Europe put together, but when the British left it had dropped to about 3%

the brits bled that place

 

[JDH]

250 year long recession the Indian economy saw negative growth throughout the entire colonial occupation. Even the population didn't grow which is astonishing for such a long period of time to have zero population growth.

The British like to fool themselves into thinking it was a good thing. "We built railways!" "We ended the Islamic tyranny!" etc. The evidence clearly shows otherwise, if it was good for anybody, it certainly wasn't good for India. Not to mention the Muslim kingdoms had been getting their ass handed to them by Hindu kingdoms for a good century before the British showed up, it's not like we needed their help to restore Hindu freedom

Basically financed their industrial revolution