Dinh AaronMk said
The Indians aren't necessarily Buddhists, so they wouldn't care. The only "powerful" people I can imagine who would care are the Eastern Spirituality minded western folk. And their governments would really have more going on than trying to position themselves on one side of what would then be a theological succession crisis. Tenzin has said that when he is reincarnated it will be anywhere but China, and the Chinese government has gone through the legal motions that effectively allows them to approve a Dalai Lama; this has interesting implications for Tibetan Buddhism, but probably isn't on the list of things to accomplish by any current world powers.And the scale of the conflict would probably be continent wide. This is projecting forward current Maoist dissidence in the Eastern part of the country and a pattern of ignoring various ethnic or social groups the current, powerful Indian Nationalist Party doesn't care about, and bad Pakistani-Indian relations that could ignite into a nuclear exchange for Kashmir.The point of destroying India's economic abilities in a devastating war as a theater of the greater War was for me to talk about how parts of Africa are trying to use the economic window to finally expand their economy as ASN - my faction - patrols central Africa trying to keep the peace as per a contract privatizing large parts of their security. The damage to the world food supply by removing India would imply to them a chance to maybe expand themselves in their already low-standing on the tiers of economy. They're trying to produce the rice and wheat India did.I could also see Beijing challenging Delhi's power in the chaotic state of the world and moving in to keep a powerful neighbor in check so they can claim absolute hegemony over Asia. And I think both nations have territorial disputes either one could press when there's no one policing the world anymore.
The idea behind India's attempted restoration of an independent Tibet isn't necessarily a religious one. They'd be looking for a justification to cripple their main adversary (the other continental superpower, China), take disputed territory in the process, and pass it off as a justified war to liberate a peaceful theocratic nation from the big-bad-commies while simultaneously placing that nation within their sphere of influence. It's a power-grab neatly disguised as a just and necessary war, really.
Anyway, I think I'll go forward with the limited nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India, and will probably try to tie both wars together to make it a it more pitched and hectic. The spot will certainly be a hotspot for conflict, both before and after the start of the RP, I'm sure. Anyway, Africa will certainly be getting the economic window you spoke of I suppose, now that India's going to be hit hard.
Well, I'll start researching a bit more and try to weave together an equally hectic and believable situation for the war. I had originally been planning to RP a moderately powerful, somewhat stable, and very hegemonic India when I claimed it, but it seems that you've easily steered me towards wanting to craft a more dire and dystopian setting for my nation.
