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Originally Posted by Olefin
Really the SAG wouldnt go into the Baltic until the Soviets had been pounded and their bases either destroyed or rendered combat ineffective - at that point you would see them there most likely escorting and providing fire power for a Marine unit to make a landing in Poland or Kaliningrad or the Baltics
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We're talking the neutralization of mainland Soviet combat effectiveness. What ever would have happened at that point is complete speculation. My bet: Either the Soviets would have asked for peace or hit the big red button, since at that point a NATO main offensive would come rolling across land towards them.
Either way, USN was planning to dominate the Barents Sea at that point, since it resembled a deepwater approach against the Soviet heartland, allowed to take out their boomer bastion(s) and would have opened up a third front to the North against Moscow.
Let the German, Danish, Dutch etc. navies handle the Baltics.