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Originally Posted by peter12
I bow to your superior knowledge, but even with the upgrades and improvements, they do not have the economic or demographic strength to do much more than enforce their borders.
So how far can they nibble?
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Right now, if the Russian's wanted to keep clipping away at Eastern Border NATO countries.
If the American's stepped away from NATO I would much rather be the Russian Commander then the NATO Commander on the ground.
Even if America gets involved. I would certainly like my correlation of forces, a fairly solid supply line and mass air coverage.
The fact is that NATO readiness has badly declined over the year as Nations has spent less and less on their military's
If the russian's clipped off a portion of some NATO country they could probably fortify it pretty hard faster then NATO could get the required forces in the field and activate their headquarters. At the same time, Russia has really focused on what they call a low yield nuclear scalpel strategy. Which basically means that Russia will say we have this area, we might be willing to neogitate some of it back, however if you attack Russian soil we will respond up to and including tactical nuclear weapons.