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You don't have to go back too far for Russia to be viewed as a legitimate military threat who could roll through europe. I wonder if there are anything other th
by thatguy0900 3y ago
You don't have to go back too far for Russia to be viewed as a legitimate military threat who could roll through europe. I wonder if there are anything other than turkeys for the us military to shoot.
- somenameforme 3y agoThis not really well supported by basic constraints, nor by history. On the constraints side, nukes alone preclude this possibility, but even against non-nuclear enemies - war against people that can (and do) fight back is extremely difficult, grueling, and brutal. And the outcome is never certain. Both the USSR and the USA lost to Afghanistan, the US lost to Vietnam and 'drew' against North Korea (with the backing of an at the time poorly developed China), Russia lost a war to Chechnya, and much more. Nuclear powers feared conflict between each other not because one or the other's conventional army (or arms) were superpowered, but because it dramatically increased the chances of a conflict escalating to the nuclear level - which could well be the end of both civilizations, if not the better part of the entire human species.
- thriftwy 3y agoIt is debatable whether USSR has lost to Afghanistan because it left behind a functioning secular state which happened to outlive the USSR itself.