Alright, so, question: I have been thinking of doing a scenario so far where the Cold War goes hot due to the Yom Kippur War, especially with that one time that Brezhnev threatened to intervene if Israel kept violating the ceasefire, which in the scenario I am about to postulate, it did violate the ceasefire, thus causing the war to spiral out of control. So, in the ensuing WWIII that rages across the Middle East, (possibly) Europe and (also possibly) the Pacific, who would in a direct NATO v Warsaw Pact confrontation in the months PRIOR to the use of nuclear weapons? We all know how it would end, but the situation I am asking is: who in 1973 would be able to defeat the other in a conventional, direct conflict between the superpowers?