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Originally Posted by weswood
What would the war be like if nukes weren't used until the last year or so of the war? Say it was purely conventional until the USSR got desperate, started out with tac nukes in late '98/early '99 with the nuke exchange escalating until it culminates in the Thanksgiving day massacre?
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The Soviets already were desperate in July 1997. They were being pushed back and actually had NATO units within the USSR borders - so much for the buffer states such as East Germany and Poland...
There doesn't seem any justification in delaying the use of nukes at all, especiallly considering the Pact navy was about 99% on the bottom of the sea and there was no way short of ICBMs and SLBMs that they could even slow down the flow of NATO reinforcements and supplies from outside Europe.
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If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.
Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"
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