actually I said 'That is one thing that the timeline I feel fails to address by having the vast majority, if not all of the forces of those PACT countries stay loyal to the Soviets thru most of the war"
not saying that whole nations go over to the US or NATO - but at least some units of significant size - i.e. brigades to divisions - should have gone over to NATO in 1997 during their drive thru Poland - a division or two is a lot of men but not saying an entire nation would do so
i.e. more like what happened in Russia in WWII where men did go over to the Germans (especially among the Balts) - but in this case the Russians put a stop to it by a combo of the successful counterattack and using nukes on those units to make any further possible defectors think twice about it, realizing the cost the previous units had just paid
As for the Czechs - the two halves of that country are very different in their outlooks - the western part was always much more pro-West versus the eastern part - so having at least some Czech units from the west - i.e. the current Czech Republic - defect to NATO makes sense in the game
and again provides for where former PACT soldiers came from that are in NATO units by 2000 - i.e. they are what is left of the defecting units from 1997 that have now been absorbed by the NATO units
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