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What could possibly go wrong now that a nation possessing nuclear weapons sits on the verge of bankruptcy? As fiat currencies continue their death spiral, the specter of debt default is moving from the truly marginal economies to the less marginal ones. In this case, things are more worrisome thanks to Pakistan’s chronic association with some notable Islamic terrorists.

Amid the depleting foreign currency reserves and crashing economy, Pakistan is in dire need of USD 36-37 billion in foreign financing in the next fiscal year.

 

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  1. Foreign Affairs suggests that Pakistan got it wrong:
    Pakistan Reaps What It Sowed
    How the Country’s Support for the Taliban Backfired

    By Husain Haqqani | May 23, 2022

    For the last two decades, conventional wisdom in Pakistan held that an Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban would be a boon to Pakistan’s security. Islamabad has long supported the Taliban with the understanding that the militants could help deny India­—which many Pakistani officials see as an existential threat—any influence in Afghanistan. But since sweeping back to power last August, the Taliban have confirmed how misguided the conventional wisdom truly was. Pakistan has become less safe, not safer, after the Taliban’s victorious march into Kabul….

    1. Have you ever met an enemy of civilization you did not want to immediately fellate?

  2. What could possibly go wrong now that a nation possessing nuclear weapons sits on the verge of bankruptcy?

    You’ll have to be more specific.

  3. I only care how much aid we’ll be sending and how many of those creepy pakis will be coming here. Any is too many.

  4. For a second there I thought you were referring to the US. $220 trillion in unfunded liabilities. We can talk about Pakistan being bankrupt and dangerous, but we’ll have the same conversation re the US in less than a decade.

    Nuclear blackmail can pay well.

  5. $100 million per weapon or fissionable pit, and 1/2 billion for verified destruction of any enrichment facility or breeder reactor. Transactions to be done publicly or privately.

    Naaah! That would be too freaking sensible.

    Make the same offer to India, North Korea, and even France, Britain, and Israel.

    Let the Russian and Chinese Strategic weapons stewards know that this offer is available to them too, and payable to individuals in Switzerland, Panama, and the Cayman Islands.

  6. Nuke it. Nuke it all.
    One of the top three shitholes in the solar system and I’m including Uranus.

    1. I suspect there are many in China and Russia who say the same thing about the West. Glass it.

      Berlin, Warsaw, Madrid, London, Paris, Washington DC, New York, Toronto, San Francisco etc. Kill a few hundred million. Who’d miss those sh–holes?

      Fortunately for my family and me, crazy nuke-happy Western scumbags are kept in check by the saner people in their militaries. Ditto for Pakistan, Russia, India, North Korea, and China (or the world would have been glass a very long time ago)

  7. They’re not white enough or blue eyed enough for a $40B bailout.

    might want to sell your real estate in Delhi.

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