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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Russia's strategy for WW3 was to push west as hard and fast as they could to try and give NATO a real good sucker punch and then wear us down until all of our breakthrough and strategic assets were depleted as we repelled them back eastward. Eventually forcing us to force a treaty because a true victory in either direction would have been made impossible. Which is enough of a win for the Soviets.
Honestly I can't imagine the basic scenario would change much if it happened today. Or the outcome.
You can't replace modern fighting equipment that fast and once we start losing serious numbers of planes and tanks and start getting bogged down and losing momentum it's pretty much over.
Edited by LeGarcon on Jul 11th 2018 at 5:29:55 AM
Oh really when?The thing we have to remember is that this is not the Cold War, and Russia is not the mighty Soviet Union. They are more or less broke (not helped that Putin and his cronies are stealing trillions from the Russian people), and really only thing that's keeping the economy afloat right now, is oil and natural resource extraction.
Other than the rusting remnants of the Soviet Army, Russia's biggest assets are it's legacy intelligence service and an updated Soviet Playbook of Hybrid Warfare.
We need to be thinking less about conventional warfare, and more about countering Russian influence and disinformation.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 11th 2018 at 5:34:17 AM
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The difference between then and now is that it would be much harder for them to deplete our assets, and the Russian Federation is less interested in all-out WW3 than the Soviets.
You're right about the outcome, though. Frankly Russian forces are badly outmatched by their Western counterparts, but they'd still be able to take territory in Eastern Europe. That's enough of a win for them either way.
Edited by archonspeaks on Jul 11th 2018 at 2:36:48 AM
They should have sent a poet.Mueller has asked for an additional 100 blank subpoenas ahead of Manafort's trial.
Edited by tclittle on Jul 11th 2018 at 7:10:48 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."For those who have been worried about the changes in the Generic Ballot polls, this tweet
is extremely relevant and encouraging.
The Democratic Party has a far better opposition margin then is normal for midterms.
So I think it's very plausible that as November approaches we'll the differences widening.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Jul 11th 2018 at 8:39:59 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangTrump seems to be a real life case of You Have Outlived Your Usefulness and You Have Failed Me.
Cohen and Manafort aren't getting rescued because:
1. Trump can't do it against state charges. 2. He holds the fact they're in trouble against them.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jul 11th 2018 at 6:27:00 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.So Congress has repudiated Trump on trade (meaningless until they actually pass a binding bill to stop him) and NATO (this actually matters, as Trump can't unilaterally pull out of NATO). I guess this is a pathetic, gentle way for the GOP to tell Trump that there are still red lines he can't cross.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Man oh man, does John Kelly hate his life right now.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.That four percent defense budget bullshit reeks of Moving the Goalposts. I'll bet my right arm that someone privately got it into Trump's head that the two percent is only intended to be reached in several years, prompting him to start whining about the subject in a different way.
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
Proof that Stephen Colbert is perhaps America's greatest hero at the moment, you'd have to know he would comment on the allegations. Here he points out how Trump claiming Germany is colluding with Russia is a case of the pot and the kettle.
Edited by tsstevens on Jul 17th 2018 at 11:45:02 PM
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than YoursTrump's Spiritual Adviser: Sure, Jesus Was A Refugee, But He Didn't Do Anything Illegal
Edited by LSBK on Jul 11th 2018 at 11:47:12 AM

Even if the purpose of that Unmasking Antifa Act is already pretty much obvious, did they really have to name it Unmasking Antifa Act? It is much too on the nose. Either they are really just that bold or just that stupid... That name seriously stands out way too much among all the news shared in this thread.
I'm not as witty as I think I am. It's a scientifically-proven fact.