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Originally Posted by weswood
Wasn't it the Cubans in the original? With some Soviet advisors? I find that less believable than North Korea. On the other hand, if the plot was China invades becuase of the US's inabilty to repay it's debt, I could see that.
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Why? Cuba is right there. At the time ('84 or so) they had battle-hardened troops that'd spent a decade in Angola (this is referenced by the sympathetic Cuban regional commander once, too). Nicaragua had gone commie and it looked like the entire Central American isthmus was headed that way, so Cubans jumping at the chance to slaughter a few hundred thousand Yanqui Dogs is entirely believable for the time.
Hell, it's entirely believable for
today.
The "Red Canada" comment by Powers Boothe's major is less so, though. Given that the UK was still fighting alongside the US ("They won't be in it too much longer.") I just don't see them letting Canada go hard-USSR supporting.