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I have read on number of books on Soviet military history and it's centralized command structure. And it isn't just the Bolsheviks who did ‘’nasty things’’. The Russian Bear has a very bloody history. My oldest brother was an officer in the 5th. Marine Division in the late ˜70s and imparted some insight to me into how the Soviets did things and again, I've studied quite a lot of Russian military history. The Russians have always relied on numbers. ‘’Quantity’’, said Stalin, ‘’has a quality all it's own’’. However quantity didn't do much for them in Afghanistan though. Not in the long run but in Europe it might. That is if Putin pushes this. Certainly a former Marine such as yourself knows strategy isn't fixed. That's what always doomed the Red Army. Centralized command structures, if relied on, aren't able to deal with the fluid nature of combat. I don't know... no one can read Putin's mind and the thought of seeing Russian tanks storming through the Fulda Gap is to me anyway, inconceivable. Seventy years on and seeing Western Europe a battle field again, with Germans squaring off against Russian armor-- again? That would be something indeed but history is an amazing thing. I suppose if one lives long enough history will repeat itself.

I don't know... no one can read Putin's mind and the thought of seeing Russian tanks storming through the Fulda Gap is to me anyway, inconceivable.

The Russians aren't at the Fulda gap anymore, they would have to fight through a 1000 miles and some NATO countries to get there.

Read post 71. Your Russian super army doesn't have the muscle to conquer NATO.

My only point is that not only are nuclear weapons not “off the table” their use is in fact guaranteed if the west pursues Ukraine and seems to be winning. We know this. There isn’t any debate to be had, and political chicanery can not change that.

Even if the US stays out of the European Union’s flailing attempts to remain viable we need to be beefing up our infrastructure and preparing for what a nuclear war will bring because Brussels is stupid enough to bring one about.

And we need a commander in chief who will not allow the US to be devastated in a first strike without ordering a counter response while it is inbound. We don’t have one of those right now. Even at this site most participants have experienced only peace for so long that they can not comprehend the necessity.