Foreignopolicy.com article, file under BS and move on.
These are the same fantasists with their predictions Pakistan will collapse.
Here’s some of their junk I mean writing from 2010;
Is Pakistan a failed state? No.
foreignpolicy.com
That’s right they had Pakistan ranked below Afghanistan lol.
BROOKINGS
OP-ED
China Is Hardly the Only Threat to U.S. Interests
Michael E. O’HanlonWednesday, April 4, 2001
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One prominent possibility is a collapsing Pakistan. If that coup-prone country were to dissolve into civil war, possibly between two or more factions of the Pakistani military, urgent questions would be raised about the whereabouts and security of the country’s nuclear arsenal. Given the prevalence of Islamic fundamentalist groups in that region, American planners would have to worry that some of the country’s nuclear weapons could even fall into the hands of Osama bin Laden or a similar figure. Such a scenario would present an even more pressing threat to core U.S. security than a North Korean attack on South Korea or an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It is highly doubtful that the United States could stand aside. More likely, it would intervene militarily to help the moderate faction in any such civil war restore order and reestablish the security of the country’s nuclear weapons.
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China Is Hardly the Only Threat to U.S. Interests
China Is Hardly the Only Threat to U.S. Interests, Opinion in Newsday, April 4, 2001, by Michael O'Hanlon
www.brookings.edu
Something to add to the collection. Doesnt really take a lot to join American intelligencia.