WI Russia conquers the America's and stays in power 'till the 2000's?

Post 1900: for a Russian conquest of the US, we need to get the Russians to develop both the atom bomb and a delivery system capable of getting it around the world before anyone else builds enough to establish a Balance of Terror.
Early bombs aren't small or light, and the Pacific isn't small, so a bomber force that could threaten to nuke Britain is not necessarily good enough to even reach CONUS (except on a one-way trip, which is certain death even if you don't get intercepted), let alone be able to threaten it. Hells, even getting to Alaska would be a job and a half unless you were to put serious investment in opening up eastern Siberia.
 
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This is the truth, which is why the film Red Dawn is so damned FUNNY!

At least Red Dawn took the time to establish "Latin America goes Red, Soviet troops mass in Mexico, Europe bails out (because the French and the German Greens are pussies)." Not a particularly plausible explanation, but they took the time to address certain points.

Now if you want a really ASB scenario, think about Modern Warfare 2 for a moment--that entire game takes place over a period several days long. The only way that could happen is if the Russians had their paratroopers on standby in Greenland and their navy hanging around Nova Scotia waiting for the call to invade during No Russian.

Anyway...yeah, the only way the Russians are going to occupy the New World with a post-1900 POD is if they strike first in the early 1970s, and Nixon experiences a sudden case of morality ("If we're all going to die, why should we take out the Soviet Union, the world's other great hope for human technological and cultural progress with us?") that prevents him from glassing the Eastern Bloc.
 
Recently I watched a vid of a Soviet Sub during World War 2 and I wondered...

How would the world look like if the Russians conquered the America's and stayed in power 'till the 2000's?

Post if read.

I kinda hate to say this, but......InterpolTomo's rant in the DoD thread about the *U.S. supposedly being 'libertine', and Jared's first outlines of *U.S. drug policy in said story, made more sense than this scenario(and that's saying a lot. No offense guys but.....). Kramer Associates becoming FWoAN's number one superpower, would be less ASB.

Hell, I could take either of my two main TLs and have the U.S. annex the entire Western Hemisphere, South Africa, Australia, and a chunk of Antarctica.....and it might just be not as ASB.

Sorry if this seems harsh, btw, and I apologize in advance. But in all honesty it really wouldn't work.
 
I've heard references to Jareds first draft of US drug policy ITTL, but I've never seen it. Do you think you could summarize it for me?
 
Get him a beer, get him a beer ! :D

(Long-term board members will probably know what I'm talking about.)
 
I liked that movie in a MacCauley-sort of way: it wasn't really about the war, it was about the characters. Just suspend your disbelief, and its a really good story.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I LOVE RD but I watch it for the lULZ not as a serious ilm. It's chock full o' Charectatures and widely drawn stereotypes of people.

No one i nthat film is anyone I could take seriously or accept as a real human acting realistically.
 
Numbers and facts, man, not random appeals to geology. :)

Bruce
The SOviet Union never had either an expiditionary navy or AIr Force and they never had the network of globe spanning fuel and logistics stations that would allow them to move major armies from the ole Rodina to the Good ole U.S> A.

It was just never going to happen.

That's why Right wing paranoia about soviet invasions is so absurdly funny, it was never going to happen even if the SOviets wanted it too, which they never did.

Their primary objective was to deter US from invading THEM which they knew we could have done if we ever went bugfuck because we actually DID have the logitisacl ability to do it.

ANd they knew it.
 
The SOviet Union never had either an expiditionary navy or AIr Force and they never had the network of globe spanning fuel and logistics stations that would allow them to move major armies from the ole Rodina to the Good ole U.S> A.

It was just never going to happen.

That's why Right wing paranoia about soviet invasions is so absurdly funny, it was never going to happen even if the SOviets wanted it too, which they never did.

Their primary objective was to deter US from invading THEM which they knew we could have done if we ever went bugfuck because we actually DID have the logitisacl ability to do it.

ANd they knew it.

I was talking about a 17th century Russian invasion of Aztec Mexico, not a 20th century invasion of the US. Do try to pay attention.

Bruce
 
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