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What if in the early-mid 1960s the Soviet leadership basically decides once it gets 5,000 nuclear Missiles or so and can credibly destroy the US/western Europe with them they are going to significantly reduce conventional forces in Europe?

They would still keep around enough divisions/equipment to suppress potential revolts in Warsaw pact countries and to defeat a couple divisions of NATO troops attacking and a defensive war with China. But otherwise rely on having nukes pointed at New York City to prevent any general war and give up conventional parity with NATO in case of a full-scale war.

Can NATO find ways exploit a conventionally weaker USSR, or can the USSR essentially achieve the same thing they did OTL with confronting NATO but at a substantially cheaper cost?
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