I really think it is close and we will see if blinking happens or no.
Sure wish I had more confidence in our command structure these days. Patton and MacArthur may well have been dead on in their assessments of the Russians and Chinese.
Lets assume that it comes to an attack. What targets would you guess would get hit here in the USA?
I would forgo all the missile bases since the missiles would be gone by the time enemy missiles would get here.
I would target New Orleans. Niagara Falls area, Norfolk, NYC, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Long Beach, All the military bases on the coast such as those in FL. Houston and all the rest of the ports. And of course Washington DC. Colorado Springs Co. Sault Ste Marie. Detroit. Hawaii. Guam. And the military bases. One specifically at Panama.
Just those top 14 or so I named would be catastrophic by themselves.
And your right. Mac knew the Asian mindset. Patton knew the Russian mindset.
What people fail to understand is that the slavs are barbaric in nature. Ukrainians included. WW2 atrocities proved that.
There were lots of US servicemen who were interned in German POW camps, that the Russian captured. and took them to Siberia.
They are barbaric in nature. Learned from the Mongols? The Crimea and the eastern part of Ukraine that everyone is talking about were cossack in history. Ruled by the Khans for a very long time. Barbaric in nature.
Only since 1990 were they introduced to a more modern civilized nature.