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.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.
This is the truth, which is why the film Red Dawn is so damned FUNNY!
Fort Ross and Russian California?
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?
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This is the truth, which is why the film Red Dawn is so damned FUNNY!
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.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.
Not without a geological POD, no.
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.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.
Oh.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