• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Competent countries lose hard in their wargames, because the whole point of wargames is to learn something from them. If you set out to roflstomp the opfor, you might as well stay home and play Red Alert on easy mode.

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    10 months ago

    It’s always been a tactic of the Western military industrial complex to overstate Russian/Soviet capabilities in order to extract more public money. Anyone with any sense was always aware of their shortcomings.

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    10 months ago

    You can bet that NATO is drawing up plans to not fall back in the Baltics.

  • Pennomi
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    10 months ago

    They could still win (and lose) in three days. It all depends on who gets the first nuclear strike.

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      10 months ago

      There are enough warheads on both sides that no “first strike” could get all or even most. It’s lose/lose any time.

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      10 months ago

      It also depends on Russian nukes not being made of cardboard. Or Trump selling him the US arsenal.

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          10 months ago
          • they are part of the oligarchy
          • do they car about “loosing the nukes”? As long as they continue to build replacements and are allowed to continue their maintanace in Russia they will not care who sits at the launch button. They want to get paid.