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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by mikeash on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:49AM (#18441829)
The Soviets had no ability to land any significant force in the US. They would have poured forces into Western Europe, but both sides had so many tactical nukes there that the whole place would have ended up flattened.
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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by baybal2 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:14AM (#18442052)
Yes, I meant that they would've rolled over the Europe while US were trying to shoot them from another side of the globe.
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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ by mikeash on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:22PM (#18443320)
Right, so the outcome would have been: USSR wrecked by US strategic forces, Europe wrecked by medium-range forces on both sides, US hurt by Soviet strategic forces but largely intact. I didn’t mention Europe but that’s otherwise what I said.
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