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ridiculous_leke
Why are people surprised when two heavily sanctioned nations start colluding?
ggm
Pakistan has had nukes for decades now, and would wipe India off the face of the map if they could. Ask yourself why they don't, and vice versa, and look at the middle east. I don't relish Iran having nukes but it would be a mistake to assume the winning move now is first strike while we can. A reality of my childhood was MAD and we have been complacent about it for far too long. Welcome back to the 1950s and 1960s.

Quite why Iran helps a nation state which willingly slaughters their co-religionists is beyond me.

ridiculous_leke
Nope. India is pretty huge. There's no way they can "wipe India off" even when India doesn't retaliate.
xkcd1963
Having atomic weapons is basically a cheatcode for infinite lives. Back then it was a normal concern for a country to be entirely eliminated, idk. Prussia, but once you have atomic weapons, suddenly nobody can wipe you out of the map.