Don't Be Woolly

By far the biggest story in the world today, the one that should be leading every bulletin, is Kashmir.

Two nuclear-armed states are shooting at each other. So much for nuclear deterrence, but we already knew that.

For a solution in Kashmir based on the self-determination of its people, we, by which I mean the human race, obviously need India and Pakistan.

For India, we need Russia, which retains a close alliance to India going back to the Soviet period, although very far from stuck there.

And for Pakistan, we need China, since the two have one of the closest bilateral relationships on earth.

This is the real world.