What Happens When The Taliban Gets Ahold Of Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal

originally authored by Sam Faddis and posted to AND Magazine’s substack.

All administrations attempt to put a certain amount of spin on reality. They tried to paint things in the most positive light. The Biden administration has taken this to an entirely new level. It has dispensed with reality entirely. It has created a completely fictional universe.
A few weeks ago the Biden administration trumpeted the killing of a not particularly significant terrorist leader in Syria. This was obviously intended to convey the message that Joe takes threats to the homeland seriously.

Meanwhile, in Central Asia, a new terrorist super state that dwarfs anything previously seen is being completely ignored. Afghanistan is not just under the control of the Taliban. It is now a terror behemoth armed to the teeth with the latest in American weaponry.

The Afghan Taliban that now rules in Kabul have made a formal alliance with the Pakistani Taliban – their brothers in arms. Open war has been declared on Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban have made clear their intention to overthrow the government in Islamabad and create and substitute – an Islamic state.

 
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Pakistani security services are fighting an intensifying insurgency. Casualties are mounting. Increasingly the insurgents are found to be armed with American weapons and even utilizing American manufactured vehicles.

Now, however, the entire struggle is taking an increasingly dangerous direction because the economic stability of the nation-state of Pakistan is seriously threatened.

Pakistan is heavily dependent on both Russian and Ukrainian wheat. Both of those supplies have now been interrupted. Serious hunger is now a genuine threat.

The rise in oil prices has also hit Pakistan hard. Between 2020 and 2021 the cost of oil imports to Pakistan rose by 85%. As of the end of June 2022, Pakistan’s trade deficit stood at $50 billion. That was an over 50% increase over the year before. The government in Islamabad was forced to issue an order forbidding the import of over 800 luxury items to keep the deficit from going even higher.

Inflation in June rose to 20%. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut off subsidies. The prices of both oil and gas have skyrocketed.

The value of the Pakistani rupee has collapsed. Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves have been cut in half.

The World Bank is warning that Pakistan could soon face “macroeconomic instability.” Societal collapse would soon follow such an event. Pakistan has limped along for decades with an anemic economy, widespread corruption, and domestic instability. It does not have the reserves – financial or otherwise – to withstand significant economic stressors.

Oil refineries are on the verge of closing down because of a lack of oil imports. Power outages of 10-12 hours are now routine. Put simply, Pakistan has run out of money. The chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue has described the nation as “bankrupt.”

The world has just seen Sri Lanka collapse under the weight of the economic forces sweeping the globe. There is nothing unique about that event. What happened in that island nation will soon occur all around the world as economies implode under the pressure of rampant inflation and collapsing supplies of critical materials like food and fuel.

In Pakistan, an economic collapse will cripple the ability of the military to continue to combat the Taliban. It will also turn loose all the fury of the ethnic, religious, and tribal hatreds the nation has combatted since independence. Major cities like Karachi and Lahore will explode into violence. Areas along the Afghan border will rapidly cease – in any meaningful fashion – to be under the control of Islamabad.

All of this will happen in a nation armed with somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 nuclear weapons. Those weapons are fully operational and forward deployed to operational commanders around the country to facilitate their early use in any conflict with India. The potential for nuclear weapons to be seized by insurgents or simply handed over to them by sympathetic military commanders is increasing by the day.

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Pakistan has more nuclear weapons than India and Israel: International Report

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These weapons are fully operational. Pakistan also possesses the means to deliver these weapons to its targets. That includes aircraft and missiles. All of those systems will be at risk when Pakistan collapses as well. We may very well wake up one morning and find not only that an Islamic Emirate now exists in what was once Pakistan, but that this radical Islamic state enjoys the capacity to kill millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people throughout South and Central Asia.

It is said that elections have consequences. That has never been truer. We are now living with the consequences of what happened in 2020 when a corrupt incompetent was installed in the White House. Those consequences will get much, much worse.

A terrorist super state is expanding even as its nuclear-armed neighbor stands on the verge of disintegration. Joe Biden and his mandarins will do nothing to rectify the situation. The whole world may soon find out what happens when the Taliban gets ahold of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

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About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

7 Comments

  1. American Yeoman July 19, 2022 at 10:38

    Pakistan is a client state of China, they share a border. Let them deal with it.

    • NC Scout July 19, 2022 at 12:03

      And how, pray tell, does that bode for the US? (NOT WELL.)

      • American Yeoman July 19, 2022 at 12:27

        Nope. Not Well indeed.

  2. James Carpenter aka "Felix" July 19, 2022 at 10:46

    In more ways than one, we broke it.
    Looking more and more like we’ll have to buy it. (or otherwise pay)

  3. spingerah July 19, 2022 at 11:22

    9/10/01 Pakistani parliament 50% Taliban
    9/12/01 not a single Taliban anywhere in the entire country &
    Bin Laden ? never heard of the guy.

  4. Major Kong July 19, 2022 at 11:48

    They will call Milley-Vanilli and give a warning before using them?
    It will be lip synched with an 80’s dance beat in the background.
    All this is a feature and not a bug to Puppident JoJO Brandon’s handlers.

  5. Überdeplorable Psychedelic Cat Grass July 19, 2022 at 20:56

    What really is frightening is how many of the tech experts that maintain their nukes would be willing to do so after such a unification.

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