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Originally Posted by crockett
The only WW3 that would ever happen is an all out nuclear war. No one wants that, so none of the major nuclear powers will ever try to invade one another. What will happen is what happens now.. Regional wars in third world countries. No one is gonna nuke each other over places like Syria, Ukraine and so on and it's still the same game of chess with the profits of war with out having to do much of the work..
Think about it.. If the U.S. For instance really wanted war with say Russia.. Why wouldn't we have invaded them post USSR break up? There was no real control over the former soviet countries many didn't like the others and it would of been a walk in the park at that time to take over for US and NATO forces..
Why would we wait all these years for Russia to rebuild and then fight them? Why would we intermingle our economy with China if we wanted war with them?
If it ever happens it won't be the U.S. That starts it..l
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Maybe sort of not really.
Russia wanted partial control of those countries for a "buffer zone from the west" being as "the west" (being defined as "Nazi Germany") over ran them and nearly made it all the way to Moscow. No country suffered greater than the Soviet Union did.
Could the US had over run all of those countries and attacked Russia during the cold war? Maybe. But if you look at the past history of the Soviet Union and how they pretty much fought back Nazi Germany on their own.... Makes any country think twice about attacking them.
At a certain point some countries are just too freaking big.... United States, Russia, and China. You can attack any country, but with the big three there is thousands of miles from border to border - that's way too much cannon fodder. This is one of the ways the Soviet Union was able to beat back the Nazis - The picked their industries and moved them across the country where the Germans couldn't get them.