Realism vs Munchkinism

[Olefin]

When the story begins you have the Soviets knocking the US Army back on its heels again, the Soviets still occupying much of Germany, and the US having lost the Southwest and a good sized piece of Alaska. Thats hardly no one won - the Soviets won their war with China, are still in possession of the areas they took and are still deep in enemy territory everywhere.

The return to Europe and Last Submarine arcs still show Soviet command and control to some extent still working and that their control of Romania and their forces in the north is still good enough to launch an invasion of Norway in the winter of 2000 and to keep a very iron grip on Romania.

Its pretty obvious that the US lost and the Soviets won - i.e. in the end there are no US or NATO forces that can threaten the Soviet Union. Their country may be falling apart but it wont be under foreign occupation.

The US cant say the same thing.