https://apnews.com/article/india-pakistan-missiles-air-bases-1de0ca13c13899f0bd3530b4808d45ad

«India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.»

Ok, this sort of thing bugs me. “Nuclear-armed rivals” in Every. Single. News story. As if to say, “brown-skinned people who talk funny and sometimes wear towels on their heads and eat weird food and maybe can’t control their tempers and OH MY GAWD have nukes!!!1!1!”

Meanwhile, we have a president who wants to nuke hurricanes and wonders why we have nukes if we can’t use them. And there’s another guy considered to be white, in another part of the world, who constantly talks about using nukes in his attempt to outright conquer another sovereign nation.

And it’s not just our current man-child. It’s the assumption that somehow only the white people are capable of cool-headed, clear thinking and responsible stewardship of so much destructive power.

And, yes, there’s the Chinese, but somehow, in the context of nukes, the evil, corrupt Chinese government becomes the anciently wise thousand-year Chinese culture because orientalism, baby.