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Pakistan downs 3 Indian jets as retaliation for late-night strikes at 6 sites (www.dawn.com)

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't have an India/Pakistan war on my bingo ca...oh, wait, yeah, it's always been there in that corner. Great.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Missing Taiwan for bingo, no?

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is the simulation collapsing?

Russia/Ukraine ✅️
Israel/Palestine ✅️
US/Canada,Greenland (threats) ✅️
India/Pakistan ✅️

Congratulations, diagnostics complete.

Results: CRITICAL ERROR, SYSTEM FAILURE, SHUTTING DOWN SIMULATION.EXE

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 days ago

Rwanda conducting border incursion and I am pretty sure occupying a major city in DRC

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hold on, Morocco and Algeria isn't happening yet, same with Turkey and Syria or China and Taiwan.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

give it a minute

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Judging from history, this is probably what the simulation is for. There hasn't been a single day in many thousands of years of recorded history without overlapping armed conflicts. You'd probably have to read cuneiform or so to find one.

[+] softcat@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

India supplies weapons to Russia. Both are Putin's bitches.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Russia sends weapons to India, not the other way around. India is not a major weapons exporter.

By this standard the US would be the biggest 'bitch' as it is the world's largest weapon supplier (followed by Russia and China).

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t India withholding water from Pakistan? This might be a broken clock situation

[+] softcat@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

they're both asshole countries what of it

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

India is increasingly nationalist but does not house terrorists (Osama Bin Laden being the most notable) and militant / terrorist groups are not given access to its intelligence network to destabilize regional geopolitics.

Pakistan had the West's and especially US goodwill until it became known that the government there was too closely tied to terrorist / militant groups.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah the "war on terror"

you mean the one Americans self inflicted? The people we trained? Probably friends with Pakistan in the first place because we were training people to overthrow Afghanistan or Iraq from there or something.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There was a definite sloppiness with proxy wars fought in cold war era. Between the USSR and the US there seems to have been a persistent fear that the other would gain power and influence if a key region failed to self govern.

If there's one thing that will always be true about America it's that it will never give up an opportunity to sell or supply weapons.

[+] softcat@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where does it say I have to be humane and empathetic about every conflict?

I have very little power here and the motivation behind these countries beefing (religion) is silly to me. I don't care of 60 trillion people died over religion it's still fucking stupid and fuck em.

And I expect the same thrown my own way. When America is nuked and I die, you best damn well say "sucks to fuckin suck"

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Seems the little guy has grown up real fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YMrFWx4d4A

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago

both countries are run by religious nuts. It's going to be extremely hard believing any of their claims.