Stairmaster posted:

https://twitter.com/StratSentinel/status/1100504626057699328

edit: actual corrobaration from alzeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/indian-shelling-kills-civilians-pakistan-administered-kashmir-190226190841703.html

Agean90 posted:

That said I'm pretty sure this is just some dudes on the border shooting at each other, I doubt it'll turn onto anything more than a minor border skirmish and it'll die down by the start of next week

OhFunny posted:

http://www.nucleardarkness.org/warconsequences/fivemilliontonsofsmoke/

Following a war between India and Pakistan, in which 100 Hiroshima-size (15 kiloton) nuclear weapons are detonated in the large cities of these nations, 5 million tons of smoke is lofted high into the stratosphere and is quickly spread around the world. A smoke layer forms around both Hemispheres which will remain in place for many years to block sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth. One year after the smoke injection there would be temperature drops of several degrees C within the grain-growing interiors of Eurasia and North America. There would be a corresponding shortening of growing seasons by up to 30 days and a 10% reduction in average global precipitation.

War with 100 low-yield nuclear weapons

Summary of Consequences of Regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan(from studies done at Rutgers, the University of Colorado-Boulder and UCLA)

• War is fought with 100 Hiroshima-size weapons (currently available in India-Pakistan arsenals), which have half of 1 percent (0.05%) of the total explosive power of all currently operational and deployed U.S.-Russian nuclear weapons
  
• 20 million people die from the direct effects of the weapons, which is equal to nearly half the number of people killed during World War II
  
• Weapons detonated in the largest cities of India and Pakistan create massive firestorms which produce millions of tons of smoke
  
• 1 to 5 million tons of smoke quickly rise 50 km above cloud level into the stratosphere
  
• The smoke spreads around the world, forming a stratospheric smoke layer that blocks sunlight from reaching the surface of Earth
  
• Within 10 days following the explosions, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere would become colder than those experienced during the pre-industrial Little Ice Age
  
• These nuclear war-induced effects on temperature would be twice as large as those which followed the largest volcanic eruption in the last 500 years, in 1816, which caused “The Year Without Summer”
  
• This cold weather would also cause a 10% decline in average global rainfall and a large reduction in the Asian summer monsoon.
  
• 25-40% of the protective ozone layer would be destroyed at the mid-latitudes, and 50-70% would be destroyed at northern high latitudes. Massive increases of harmful UV light would result, with significantly negative effects on human, animal and plant life.
  
• These changes in global climate would cause significantly shortened growing seasons in the Northern Hemisphere for at least years. It would be too cold to grow wheat in most of Canada.
  
• World grain stocks, which already are at historically low levels, would be completely depleted. Grain exporting nations would likely cease exports in order to meet their own food needs.
  
• Some medical experts predict that ensuing food shortages would cause hundreds of millions of already hungry people, who now depend upon food imports, to starve to death during the years following the nuclear conflict.
  

Philthy posted:

good news, if they nuke each other the entire world gets to die off - just a little slower than ground zero

both countries have an extinction worthy nuclear arsenal

RaffyTaffy posted:

Not over yet.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1100634339258392576
https://twitter.com/abdulrehman2069/status/1100635913217019904

Fat Lowtax posted:

Fat Lowtax posted:

https://twitter.com/WajSKhan/status/1100665527645732864

i say swears online posted:

https://twitter.com/sulehria/status/1100666127250870273

i say swears online posted:

now that's a loving mustache

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/turing_police/status/1100680387179687937?s=21

Stairmaster posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/StratSentinel/status/1100840444324466689

lol

Typo posted:

I think anybody who doesn't realize this is a net gain for Modi's political situation is an idiot

Dolash posted:

Isn't the whole problem that there's a positive political incentive to escalate right up to the point of nuclear annihilation, and exactly what escalation might set off a runaway reaction to that is unclear?

cargo cult posted:

https://i.imgur.com/jbTtHr1.gifv

get that OUT of my face posted:

is this person full of herself? i'm inclined to believe "yes"
https://twitter.com/CChristineFair/status/1100918712952070144

gradenko_2000 posted:

Please stop posting the Strategic Sentinel. They're literally just taking someone else's news and changing a word.

Fat Lowtax posted:

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1100949081671708672

get that OUT of my face posted:

indian-americans are the most solidly blue asian group in the country. something like 75% of them are registered democrats. granted, that probably has to do with where they live- many of them live in NYC or NJ. vietnamese-americans are more split in terms of party loyalty, and a lot of them live in Oklahoma, which is deep red