Uh-Oh, How Bad Is This Going to Get?

[ICantSpellDawg]

Part of me wants to see the fall of an empire in my lifetime. It will be awesome to see the murderous chickens come home to roost... to part of me.

The ultimate pendulum swing from PC boring.

Nah. I don't trust Economists. You'd be better suited flipping a coin.

[Incongruous]

Pakistan, should definatley be one worth thinking about, what with those nasty bombs it has, and all the Islamists.

Apart from that, maybe none, the U.S can't afford it.

[Lord Winter]

...and so nations fall.

Honestly, even if things get really really bad, and we're not turned into radioactive ash, we'll just act like Russia has throughout history. We may get knocked down but we're just to big to go away and properly die.

The 21st century will certainly be interesting, seeing how several major nuclear armed powers react to each other.

[lars573]

Pakistan, should definatley be one worth thinking about, what with those nasty bombs it has, and all the Islamists.

Apart from that, maybe none, the U.S can't afford it.

There is a very good governor for any crazy that tries to take over Pakistan. And it's called India. With an army thrice that of Pakistand and enough "buckets of sunshine" to lay waste an area about the size of Pakistan.

[Shaka_Khan]

Part of me wants to see the fall of an empire in my lifetime. It will be awesome to see the murderous chickens come home to roost... to part of me.

The ultimate pendulum swing from PC boring.

You will no longer want to see it when you experience it. You won't just see it. You'll feel the hunger and fear too.

[Husar]

Maybe we can delay the megasuperduper inflation until I'm done with uni so I can pay my loan back with just an hour of work.

[Tribesman]

There is a very good governor for any crazy that tries to take over Pakistan. And it's called India. With an army thrice that of Pakistand and enough "buckets of sunshine" to lay waste an area about the size of Pakistan.

Yeah that make sense
India has a big army and enough nukes to destroy Pakistan .
Pakistan has a smaller army and enough nukes to destroy India .

[lars573]

Actaully I've seen diagrams in a National Giographic piece about Kashmir. Both India and Pakistan can destroy an area about the size of Pakistan with their buckets of sunshine. Meaning Pakistan would be wiped from the map and India would be less screwed.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Actaully I've seen diagrams in a National Giographic piece about Kashmir. Both India and Pakistan can destroy an area about the size of Pakistan with their buckets of sunshine. Meaning Pakistan would be wiped from the map and India would be less screwed.

The USA had that kind of an edge during the late 1960s with the much higher dependability and maintenance standards of our solid-fueled ICBM fleet as opposed to their largely liquid-fueled fleet. There were those who concluded a first strike would cripple the USSR as well as decapitate it and that the USA would ONLY have to cope with a few dozen hits from Soviet silos and subs.

Fortunately, those voices were not listened to.

[lars573]

I'm not saying India should pro-actively erase Pakistan either. But it's just another avantage to India (which already has several) in any India-Pakistan conflict. And anyone in a position of power in Pakistan knows that. Which is what I am saying. That Pakistan has much larger a western leaning hostile neighbour.

[CrossLOPER]

Meaning Pakistan would be wiped from the map and India would be less screwed.

Look up "nuclear fallout" on wikipedia. Please. Both nations would be uninhabitable and the areas around would not be much better off.

[lars573]

Don't have too. And who gets the poison rain woud depend on which way the wind was blowing.