India and Pakistan are engaged in another skirmish, and this latest fighting is a good time to remind people of how a war between the two nuclear-armed nations would affect Russia and China (and their focus on the U.S.). The skirmish is also a good time to remind people of why I’ve largely stopped writing open-source intelligence assessments (and pretty much every other type of nonfiction writing).

Back in 2018, I wrote “How an India-Pakistan War Would Distract China and Russia from the U.S.” Fairly in-depth, highly insightful, and unlike anything you’d find anywhere else.

And no one cared about it.

Feel free to read it now. It’s still on-point. And it’s particularly worthwhile to read considering that the U.S. is no longer capable of winning wars.

Image at top excerpt of reference map from the CIA World Factbook.