I've personally dealt with groups of ... probably hundreds who are wrong about something that I could prove technically. 28 upvotes is not persuasive to me. You'll need an argument.
HN has some pretty reasonable guidelines about what it is for. This isn't it. And it also isn't a powerful story on its own, we need to know what India's response is. Unless maybe there is something meaty behind the paywall?
The guidelines state "What good hackers find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups " If a Wikipedia page about a cinder cone volcano[0] can be posted, then this can too.
Not necessarily. China feels much closer than Russia to the US, and military deployments do reflect that as well.
While Russia is absolutely a major threat, the mutual feeling of danger that both China and the US have of each other dwarfs any supposed feeling about Russia.
Do you have numbers? I might think the US still has the biggest deployments in Europe (UK, Spain/Italy, Ramstein/Landstuhl in Germany) and the Middle East vs Guam/Korea/Japan.
Only 64k American soldiers are deployed in Europe. 131k are deployed in the Pacific (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deplo...), but should be 150k once you include the Alaskan deployments which are relatively close to China and Murmansk
The bitter truth is any Russian aggression will be fought back by German, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, French, etc bodies.
We don't have a similar buffer with China beyond the inner ring, as our treaty allies (Japan+SK) will have their hands full with NK.
The only time the US was invaded by a foreign army in the 20th century was the Japanese invasion of Alaska along with the invasion of (then) American Phillipines
HN has some pretty reasonable guidelines about what it is for. This isn't it. And it also isn't a powerful story on its own, we need to know what India's response is. Unless maybe there is something meaty behind the paywall?