User blog comment:Ty Rezac/Superpowers/@comment-5018798-20120702192400/@comment-4621372-20120705163023

What makes you say that Merkel cannot hold the EU together? That is completely unfactual. Germany can spend an unlimited amount of money, because the ECB gives it that kind of credit.

Neither Pakistan nor India wants war, but even if it occurs, it will last for a week at most. Assuming Pakistan doesn'rt go NFU, India hits Pakistani silos (though not their mobile bases) and all that are left are the 'Battlefield' mininukes. within one week, India has won. Not much time for an overwhelming lead. In any case, by 2022, India's population will surpass that of China. China has a negative birth rate.

Sea levels will not get high enough to engulf Bangladesh until 2050-2080... and then the land bridge between the 2 will be cut by water so people would actually flee into Assam and from there into CHina, Thailand, etc. By 2035, India will be an economically stronger nation. Another few years and it will be militarily stronger. And hyper secretly? how do you propose that? How does that work, exactly? Besides, what you are missing here is that the two want the other to grow at a slightly lower growth rate but not to fall completely because they are both massive trade partners. 100s of billions are traded every year.