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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Yep, Russian military forces can't be compared to the US ones even close, because they are much (incomparable) weaker. On the other hand, Russian military doctrine does not presume any other way of fighting NATO than using nukes. Russia has about the same amount of strategic nukes as the USA for the guaranteed mutual destruction + incomparable larger amount of tactical nukes targeting the EU NATO countries.
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The US/NATO forces were intentionally kept weaker in Europe than Soviet Forces were ...during the cold war...so that the Soviets would know that we would have to use our nukes to defend Europe.