Let's say in a Conventional war scenario in the year 1981 during the Cold War, the US/NATO and USSR/Pac went to war, could NATO have been able to go on the offensive and could the Pac have actually pushed NATO back?
USSR collapses five days into the war.
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well memed
>>2759801
this, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary would all flip to NATO or just stop fighting all together. Neither would want to fight for the USSR or communism. The 3 countries populations felt oppressed and viewed the Russians as occupiers, not liberators.
iirc there was a purge in the early 80s in both Hungary and Romania because there were a large number of enlisted men and NCO's who belonged to underground liberation movements
>mfw Reagan probably would have rushed the F-117 into emergency service
>mfw imagining Soviet generals reacting to burger space magic destroying all of their command and control
To be frank, NATO would have been on the back foot.
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the first few months would be nuclear bombs targeting each other. And while in hiding, the two powers would try to come to terms depending on the amount of damage done to either side, I'd say the US might try and make terms first.
There would be revolutions by the survivors, governments overthrow, complete and total anarchy.
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