General Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, warned India in the United States that Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country, and if Pakistan faces a threat to its survival, "half the world will also be destroyed." He gave an example: if India builds a dam on the Indus River, Pakistan would "destroy it with 10 missiles." India has a population of 1.45 billion, while Pakistan has 250 million. The total population of South Asia is 1.94 billion. Munir was implying that China would also get involved in an India-Pakistan war. In that case, the number of people affected by an India-Pakistan nuclear war would exceed 3 billion. If Islamic countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East also got involved, it would really be "half the world." Munir also vividly compared, "India is like a shiny Mercedes speeding on a highway, while we (Pakistan) are like a dump truck loaded with gravel. If the truck collides with the car, who will be the loser?" This is the "mutual assured destruction" (MAD) policy in nuclear war. Munir met with senior officers of the U.S. Central Command. The Indian media newspaper The Print commented, "This is the first time a country has issued a nuclear threat from the U.S. mainland to a third country." U.S. President Trump took advantage of this nuclear fear and dramatically made the India-Pakistan ceasefire a stepping stone for himself to win the "Nobel Prize."
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