Jim Rockford

That would be pretty weird.

My BIL used to ride with a military/veterans club that wasn't 1% but somehow had a dispensation to have a three piece patch. He hasn't ridden in a while and last I heard was looking to sell his bike.

I have an older cousin who got into that life after coming back from Vietnam. I don't know what club, I was just a little kid. He's pretty old and left all that behind a long time ago but he's still a little "off."

Risk of being too frail to carry it out myself, unavailability of the means to do so, possibility of botching the job, not wanting to leave a mess for family or first responders to clean up. Those are some reasons.

A family friend shot himself rather than face dementia. It would have been a lot less traumatic for everyone if he'd been able to swallow a pill and go to sleep holding his wife's hand.

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Why should I, as a white boy that lives in Louisiana, give a frick about a bunch of brown people in South Asia shooting each other?

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Well for one thing about half our pharmaceuticals come from India and that's not changing in the near term, tariffs notwithstanding.

For another, insurance will be sky high, if its available at all, for any cargo that transits anywhere near the war zone.

Those are two significant reasons to care and that's not even counting the conflict going nuclear or third parties getting drawn in.

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lol. Hand to hand combat you say.

I’m sure our guys are nervous.

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India and Pakistan fought wars in 1965 and 1971 which were short but intense and involved large scale mechanized formations. The 1965 war featured the largest tank battle since the WWII battle of Kursk. These guys are not a first world military, but they're better trained, armed and motivated than the Iraqis were.

The hand to hand combat is born of a reluctance by both sides to be the first to escalate to what is sure to be a very ugly all out conflict.

Side note: India also has a dispute with China over lines on a map, which sometimes boils over into violence. It would not be surprising for China to insert itself into this somehow.

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oldtrucker

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Name checks out

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We have elected and allowed ourselves to be governed by retards and morons.

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Can confirm. My rep is Jack McFarland.

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We are tired of dealing with other people's shite. It's going to be shooting war anyway. Let them figure it out.

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I'm not saying we should get involved, except maybe to help deescalate if we can. But this will definitely affect us if they get into a shooting war.

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Was your grandfather a WW2 veteran?

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He was in his thirties with a family. If the war had lasted longer he most likely would have been drafted.

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