Man, I don't want to be too much of a NYTimes-bashing libs, but it's hard to exaggerate how the anglophone media royally fucked up politics coverage. You'd think the highest stakes issues in the world were like, wokeness on college campuses and Hillary Clinton retroactively breaking infosec rules
I mean India-Pakistan is currently on the front page of the NYT website and just below the pope in the World section. On a certain level it’s not really the media’s fault that everyone clicks on the culture war stories and not the actual news.
I mean, yeah 100%, you have the DOGE USAID stuff after an election where the media decided the biggest issue was activists using somewhat clunky new words for things lol.
Even “liberal” pundits engage in so much navel-gazing over bullshit. I knew we were in trouble when everything Harris did or said was framed as “how will this play politically/was this the exact optimal wording/was this the right issue to focus on” and every Trump claim was repeated at face value.
Or that the US Sec Def is incompetent. Or that the Sec State seems more interested in immigration policy than foreign policy. Glad their aren't any nuclear armed states getting mad at each other right now. They might have to fight with those stories for the front page /s
1. Modi is a bully who will kill some Pakistanis and then walk away. See Shaheen Bagh protests.
2. Pakistan is not planning a war, it just want low level conflict to justify its existence as an Imperial Ghazi state.
So calm down. But yeah it not like anybody is gonna listen to Christine Fair.
"Not planning a war, it just wants low level conflict to justify its existence" is the sort of saber-rattling that led to several of Israel's wars (1967 and 2006, at least).
Something to that, but I do think Israel is much more "state with interests" in those even if those are bad, whereas Pakistani starves its citizens, genocides minorities, ruins Afghanistan etc all to just kill some Hindus. Because it has nothing else to bind Punjab, Sindh, KPW etc together.
It's almost like there's an orange autocratic manchild and a rich car huckster inhaling all the air in the room because letting anyone else breathe means they are personally losing.
"The West" is very bad at recognizing that the rest of the world exists and affects them, which is part of why 9/11 happened. Usually Americans would be trying to simmer things down but of course that's not an option this time.
This me me me divided world would be worst place worst time to have .. There : the worst humanitarian crisis of all times and here : greedflation as a stupid distraction.
India-Pakistan seems far more likely to go nuclear though, for Ukraine-Russia, only Russia has nukes, and their current plan seems to be to grind away at Ukraine and undermine support with their stooges in Western countries, Ukraine would only get nuked if Russia suddenly went full psychotic
oh absolutely. we have not built infrastructure for taking in the amount of people this would entail, and I don't think many in the surrounding parts of south-asia have either
Realistically there is no infrastructure on Earth that could support such a mass relocation - not just in terms of doing so in an *orderly* manner, being able to support that kind of population movement *at all.*
How many people did the Transatlantic Slave Trade forcibly re-locate to north America to replace the Indians that were dying at a similar rate so the white man could have his god appointed slaves?
Nah that’s the thing, the US never sleeps on the Middle East, post-Russia, post-Austria Hungary, etc., but Partition is usually out there casually lapping them. Sub-Saharan Africa too.
Yeah, the likelihood of "literally nobody in Executive leadership is paying attention" is fairly high, especially since the likelihood of "literally nobody in Executive leadership could even tell you ~where Pakistan is on a map~" is, for the first time since Pakistan's establishment, non-zero.
The Trump Administration is basically a car accident on the 401 and most of the rest of the world is rubbernecking at the mangled wreck, oblivious to what else is going on.
Every time I turn on CNN, they’re running footage of the Pope’s funeral. I’m not saying he wasn’t important, but he is extremely dead now. Perhaps something else important is going on in the world?
I know the tensions there have been building for decades. Was it really a good idea to send Vance to India so soon after “meeting” the Pope (wink wink)?
That could be because some people in the newsbiz are thinking the more #Americans hear about it, the more likely #Trump will do something to make everything worse.
Cold War: the rest of the world is our business because we MUST CONTROL IT
Post-Cold War: The rest of the world is our business because what else are we gonna do?
Trump Meltdown: WE ARE BUSY OVER HERE NO THANKS
The major news platforms have a bunch of focus groups comprised of the dumbest & least literate voters in America... and they're saying that, no, they just don't think this is a very big deal.
Can't speak for other countries but the UK is a bit busy at the moment trying to make going for a piss difficult for everyone except a hategroup pretending to be feminists.
Our media might notice you later, get back to us in about a decade.
They need to take a chill pill,there will always be outlaws killing a bunch of the oposing group be it religion, race , ethnicity - humans have been doing this for 1000's of years
Reminded of some of the greatest moments of diplomacy in “JFK’s Forgotten Crisis”
A bit of a similar story as today northeastern India, border skirmish risking nuclear war, America distracted by crisis semi domestic, and a special US envoy tasked with cooling things down
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2. Pakistan is not planning a war, it just want low level conflict to justify its existence as an Imperial Ghazi state.
So calm down. But yeah it not like anybody is gonna listen to Christine Fair.
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan
They haven't completely fallen off their rocker yet
god this sucks
But given how genocidal Modi's rhetoric has been towards Muslims I don't think that's a safe bet
so uh.
not getting my hopes up!
This would be a "governments collapse under the strain" level of crisis.
(Somehow, China escapes this because of the Himalayas)
i mean, worth asking, no?
I suspect this is mostly low level sabre rattling. Hard to see that either would have any interest in escalating in a hot way.
MSNBC: Ukraine
NBC News Now: Pope
Al Jazeera: Palestine
This feels bonkers. If you hadn’t posted about it, I wouldn’t have seen it happened…
hang on, I’m being passed a note here
oh.
With the Ukraine conflict at a critical moment, and elections in multiple anglo countries, it obviously isn't going to be the very top story.
Post-Cold War: The rest of the world is our business because what else are we gonna do?
Trump Meltdown: WE ARE BUSY OVER HERE NO THANKS
Our media might notice you later, get back to us in about a decade.
In a day...
Indian landmass -> Kashmir -> Led Zeppelin
There are a fair number of 20-somethings who will not get what you are putting down at all.
https://www.bbc.com/search?q=kashmir&edgeauth=eyJhbGciOiAiSFMyNTYiLCAidHlwIjogIkpXVCJ9.eyJrZXkiOiAiZmFzdGx5LXVyaS10b2tlbi0xIiwiZXhwIjogMTc0NTQ2MTk0OSwibmJmIjogMTc0NTQ2MTU4OSwicmVxdWVzdHVyaSI6ICIlMkZzZWFyY2glM0ZxJTNEa2FzaG1pciJ9.jUa7SX9oJe9S49BrTDYHEtqdP9p8jrxSFceK8V3YW9k
A bit of a similar story as today northeastern India, border skirmish risking nuclear war, America distracted by crisis semi domestic, and a special US envoy tasked with cooling things down
Witkoff ain’t no Galbraith