Unstable neighbors.

Following the massacre at Pahalgam on 22 April 2025, during which 25 tourists and one local pony-wallah, all men, were selectively murdered (wikipedia), India launched Operation Sindoor in which the Indian Air Force destroyed at least six Pakistani fighter jets, two high-value surveillance aircraft and one C-130 military transport aircraft. More than 10 armed drones (UCAVs), several cruise missiles and radar sites were also taken out during India's calibrated campaign, which began on May 6 and concluded by May 10." TOI. In Bangladesh, an Islamist government has taken over and the country is gradually reverting back to East Pakistan. "Reportedly, Bangladesh has invited China to develop an old airport near Chicken neck area, India's sensitive border zone." ET. "An alleged Turkish NGO-backed Islamist group has surfaced in Dhaka under the banner 'Sultanat-e-Bangla' and has published a map promoting a so-called 'Greater Bangladesh' that includes Myanmar's Arakan State, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and the entire Northeast region of India." ET. Bangladesh may be dreaming of becoming East Pakistan, but within Pakistan "General Asim Munir is fighting a far more significant battle on a second front in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where soldiers of the Peshawar-headquartered XI Corps are engaged in a grim war within." "Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) jihadists, streaming South from Afghanistan, have carved out small emirates across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, coexisting uneasily with both the state and its enemies," wrote Praveen Swami. Elsewhere in Pakistan, "As per the video released by Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), fourteen Pakistan Army soldiers reportedly died in Balochistan's Kachhi district when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED)." ET. In the Middle East,"Jordan outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets." "Jordan said last week it has arrested 16 Muslim Brotherhood members, saying they were trained and financed in Lebanon and were plotting attacks involving rockets and drones on targets inside the kingdom." "Opponents of the Brotherhood, which is outlawed in most Arab countries, call it a dangerous terrorist group that should be crushed." Reuters. Next door, "A wave of apparent Saudi social media accounts have been promoting and calling for the return of ancient Arabian deities as part of the kingdom's national heritage, amid the country's push to replace its religious identity with a more nationalist one." Middle East Monitor. The two holiest mosques in Islam are located in Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. wikipedia. So, while the real believers in Jordan and Saudi Arabia are becoming more tolerant, the takfiris of Bangladesh and Pakistan seem to be uniting. We seem to be in danger from both east and west. But, both states are unstable and will collapse. The sooner the better.