PC/WI: USSR gets involved in pre 1991 Gulf War against US-led coalition?

WILDGEESE

Gone Fishin'
With a pre 1991 pod, how could the former USSR get involved in either a stand off or conflict with the US led coalition after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait?

Personally I was thinking of an earlier finish to the Iran - Iraq war, possibly around 85/86 thus leading to Iraq's "casus belli" with it's dispute with Kuwait over the price of oil which triggers it's invasion around 1988.

This would allow a still intact "Cold War" USSR to either send forces to help or defend Iraq.

Would this be plausible or work?

Regards filers.
 
Most likely they would be sending advisers or the like at most. The USSR at its height never had the power projection capability of the US nor would it risk Moscow to save Baghdad.
 
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Here's a slightly off-topic question- what if the Soviets got involved in the '91 war on the side of the coalition?

Is it possible?
 
This would allow a still intact "Cold War" USSR to either send forces to help or defend Iraq.

Would this be plausible or work?

Regards filers.

How are you planning on getting them there considering they don't share a land border & Iran might be just a little bit unhappy at Soviet overflights to support Saddam?
 

WILDGEESE

Gone Fishin'
How are you planning on getting them there considering they don't share a land border & Iran might be just a little bit unhappy at Soviet overflights to support Saddam?

Didn't the Red Banner Fleet have access to ports in Syria back then?

This might help with the logistics of moving stuff into Iraq, although Syria sent a token force to S Arabia in 1991.

Regards filers.
 
The irony in that is palpable...

Well, being conservative means that sombody wants to preserve something-regardless of the political term conservatism. So a conservative communist wants to preserve the unreformed CCCP and redo Glasnost and Perestroika. I have read the term regarding the communist hardliners in the early 90es.
 

B-29_Bomber

Banned
Well, being conservative means that sombody wants to preserve something-regardless of the political term conservatism. So a conservative communist wants to preserve the unreformed CCCP and redo Glasnost and Perestroika. I have read the term regarding the communist hardliners in the early 90es.

I know, it's still ironic though.
 
Didn't the Red Banner Fleet have access to ports in Syria back then?

This might help with the logistics of moving stuff into Iraq, although Syria sent a token force to S Arabia in 1991.

Regards filers.

It might if Assad wasn't a fierce opponent/regional rival of Saddam who sent a full mechanised division to Saudi Arabia. Just how secure would a Soviet seaborne LOC be in the face of the USN let alone how long it would be going across Syria & Iraq.
 
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