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This is an extremely over confident view of NATO and the US. In wargames NATO loses the Baltic states to Russia [1]. And that's WITH US forces. And lets not bri
by onepointsixC 6y ago
This is an extremely over confident view of NATO and the US. In wargames NATO loses the Baltic states to Russia [1]. And that's WITH US forces. And lets not bring up nukes, no EU member is willing to go nuclear over Tallinn.
[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/03/if-russia-started-a-war-in-the-baltics-nato-would-lose-quickly/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/03/if-russia-started-a-war...
- Retric 6y agoThat’s a massive misunderstanding of warfare. The complaint is over the deployment of forces not the total quantity of such forces. Any nation in history will lose a single battle if their enemies concentrate on a single point and their defending a huge area. However, such a loss represents no significant reduction in fighting forces and is therefore not militarily meaningful. Further a massive defensive concentration of forces into a small area just means the actual attack takes place somewhere else. In the end winning requires armies to face armies or supplies to run out over long periods.
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoIn wargames NATO loses the Baltic states to Russia That's a major change. During the Cold War, absent tactical nukes, NATO loses continental Europe to the Warsaw Pact.