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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
How about thinking out of the box and going with a Soviet move into Iran? That scenario became more than academic after Afghanistan, and there was concern that a Soviet invasion of Iran was possible after the fall of the Shah and the Iranian military becoming a shadow of what it had been up until then.
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From memory isn't the start of Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancey something along these lines as well? Azerbaijani militants destroy Soviet oil refineries crippling their economy so they decide to seize the Persian Gulf. As a diversion to that invasion the KGB stages attacks by West Germany on the Soviet Union to destabilise NATO and give them an excuse to invade West Germany.
Does something along those lines sound feasible as a start of WWIII in Europe? It wouldn't necessarily result in the withdrawl of France from NATO or the other changes between NATO and the Warsaw Pact but would it set up a believeable situation for T2k?
06-18-2021, 03:16 PM
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