Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
You're missing the point that such an Iranian-Israeli war would likely exacerbate religious tensions to the point where it would re-ignite the Pakistan-India conflict. That's where their involvement (and possibly China's) comes into play. NATO nations would likely be forced to intervene if a general regional war broke out to protect their own interests, as an Iranian-Israeli war would be almost guaranteed to shut off the oil supply to the west. Russia could see such a conflict as a distraction to allow them to settle some unfinished business in the Caucasus region, most notably with Georgia and Chechnya.
I doubt that India-Pakistan would get involved merely as one lot of Muslims are fighting Jews - especially in light of what Nuclear weapons can do. Equally, if not more likely would be a situation where both sides engage in talks to prevent this happening.

China? Unless they decided to attack India on the offchance that an army with more than 1 million troops can't fight on two fronts and there are no nuclear tipped missiles left, their direct involvement seems remote at best.

NATO would not be keen in loosing masses of troops and equipment in the malestrom - let alone would there be public sentiment.

As Russia is almost already at War in the Caucasus that is more likely, but this distraction no more than any other.


The big power blocks would be first ensuring that they had adequate supplies from areas that weren't nuked, then after the conflict was over would look to help in the area. This is where life differs from Risk.