Competent countries lose hard in their wargames, because the whole point of wargames is to learn something from them. If you set out to roflstomp the opfor, you might as well stay home and play Red Alert on easy mode.
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I wonder what kind of shit-ass tactics they attempted
Human waves lmfao
More succinctly: when training is hard, the mission is easy.
It's always been a tactic of the Western military industrial complex to overstate Russian/Soviet capabilities in order to extract more public money. Anyone with any sense was always aware of their shortcomings.
You can bet that NATO is drawing up plans to not fall back in the Baltics.
They could still win (and lose) in three days. It all depends on who gets the first nuclear strike.
There are enough warheads on both sides that no "first strike" could get all or even most. It's lose/lose any time.
Look, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed...
I just watched the British film 'Threads' about a nuclear exchange. Idk, how much nuclear winter will we need to counteract the global heating over the last 50 years?
It also depends on Russian nukes not being made of cardboard. Or Trump selling him the US arsenal.