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I could buy the BMP and probably invade France by driving across the channel with some mates. And win, judging by their past war record.
The Russians ued a very good tactic for their situation against the Germans, and let them into Russia so fast that the IL-2's could cut them off very far inland with no supplies in winter, then faced by a heavily built up soviet Army. With IL-2's, T/34's, IS-2's and Katyusha's. In the russian Winter. Without Supplies.
Sure, they got very far, but with the fat the Soviets took anything from those towns worth Taking, well... no hoper.
Hitler made the mistake of getting a big head, and taking on too much at once. If he Did Russia then the rest of the world, he may have suceeded. Instead, he lost. Oh well.
As it stood he had 3 - one was waiting to invade Britain.
maybe not but it did so much damage to hitlers eastern front that the rest was just a shambles and that was the start of the demise of his empire...
lets ot forget the usa backed both sides really, it had coca cola and ford factories in nazi germany, using their effective slave labour, guess what german civilians used as war shelters, american factories cause american bombers were told not to go near them
So you deny that pragmatism is necessary in foreign policy?
:rolleyes:
:thumb: right on dude.
No, he should have done over Russia first and ignored the not-so-secret pact. It made Stalin Time's man of the year that year. Hardly secret.
If he left Russia Stalin's Red Army would have been so strong as to be undefeatable. Russia First, Rest of World can wait. Do Remember that Russia had better Equipment for mass production. T-34, SKS, Katyusha, IL-2, and so on. Things like the King Tiger and MP-44 were the better weapons, but they were not mass production freindly. And the awesome PPSH.
The Russian Winter would still have been a bitch, too. And lets face it, it is amazing the Russians managed to hold out like they did. Hitler's best of the best went into Stalingrad. They faced men who were half of them unarmed and had to find weapons, to hold off everything the Germans had until reinforcments could arrive. Leningrad too was bloody amazing, in my books more so. That shows the kind of fighting force the Russians were back then. Imagine if they had a few more years to arm themselves up more? The size of the Red Army with better equipment would have resulted in probably a stalemate. Hitler would not have accepted that. Lets face it, the UK on its own would probably have just decided to negotiate peace when Russia was gone. Then Hitler could have easily taken us.
And its about time someone sorted out Mr. Jong-Il. He's pissing me off, can't he STFU already? We know you have Nukes! Stop shouting about it or i'll invade you myself. I am not scared of your T-34's.
Russia should
They are North Korean. They are old. They probably just about move, let alone work to any degree. Plus I bet the crews are poorly trained... Besides, i'll enable cheats and put on God mode...
But seriously, thats an anchient tank, and probably badly maintained. I think that it'd be a more sucessful war that Iraq if it were to go ahead. The MiG's on the other hand, scare me. They have 29's I Beleive... :nervous:
Back then the US Army wasn't exactally so far ahead of the NK's in Technology. And you DID stop them taking the south... that was the idea, right? Lets face it, the NK army is an army with backwards tech which has barley been updated since the last war, and low morale. I doubt the US would send in un prepared troops again though, I hope they learn from experience.
And the Pubic would hopefully support it, as NK does pose a real threat.
Land Invasion? Wouldn't you bomb and missile strike it into oblivion first, like Iraq?
It was the Chinese who handed you you asses in a sling, not the Koreans then too...
Defiantly a bad idea when you know they have nukes and an unstable leader. We knew we could get away with it in Iraq because we knew they never had a rocket capable of caring a nuclear warhead. As for NK...?
totally different ball park to Iraq though, thing is, NK does have WMD's, thats the first detterent, secondly, they have millions in their army, not some old guard thing sadam had and thirdly, China would be up in arms if such an invasion tok place, not so much in defence of NK but in anger of a war so close to their borders...NK will not be invaded...
But I can't help but fear the fact they do, and Kim may use them offensivley instead of defensivley... and with the US claiming the be fighting nations hat pose a threat to world peace...
Oh well, Kim might die soon from some kind of odd disease or get assasinated. We can but hope.
Kim won't use them offensively because of the same reasons back in the cold war (namely Mutual Assured Destruction).
I would defiantly say that we don't hope his ass gets assonated. The only people who could pull that off would be people who are even more hard-line (military brass?). Unless someone has a bright idea the best we can hope for is the same as what brought down the Soviet Union, mounting international pressure and a collapse under it's own infrastructure.
i thought you loved commie countries...no country is going to use nukes offensively, like Allrage says, it's matual assured destruction, nukes are a sign of power and are a "if you attack us then...." method of defence, completely pointless of course....
to be fair they aren't exactly communist, at best they are a despotic form of socialism.
no country is or was communist, i just thought gerbil loved the idea of there being "communist" states...
North Korea is a Tyranny.
Nukes have been used offensivley by the USA. But then again, there was no fear of payback as no-one else has them... Kim is probably mad enough to use them. The thing is we just don't know what goes on in his head.
Worlds most dangerous Terrorist? Im pretty scared of this guy:
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The necessary logistics alone would be crippling since most of our surplus hardware has already been allocated to both Afghanistan and Iraq.
lol I’ve got a theory that if you sit down and have a cup of coffie with some of the most scary people out there, by the end of it you'd both have found a mutual respect for one another.
i flirted with communism myself, realised it was a load of balls, even the idea of communism is flawed...
actually it does work, i did it with this NAZI i met, i fucking hate Nazi’s but turned out he was a pretty nice guy with a good sense of humor.