Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:He has already made hints about it. The big difference is at this point is that Russia is not the USSR..yet. Putin's pact with the Russians is that if he'll make it a better life for them if they give him carte blanche to do things as he sees fit. Like what Hitler promised German n 1932. He starts threatening nukes, his cronies will start to get nervous. Afer all, what good is money in a radioactive earth?
Even so, I still can't see us contributing much. Unless Russia directly attacks the US beforehand, which ain't gonna happen. :p
Honestly, it's not something I'd be looking forward to. Knowing Putin, that kind of direct, high-level conflict (as in USA vs. Russia, mono-y-mono) can escalate to threats of using nuclear weapons - I'm pretty sure he'd say things like that just to get his way.
As to what we can do?...airpower initially. Some one in the Pentagon had better start dusting off the Reforger plans and schedule an exercise based on that.
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