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After the end of the cold war the United States did a very good job at keeping the USSR's vast arsenal of conventional weapons contained. The United states paid a pretty penny to have them decommissioned on top of keeping the Soviet WMD arsenals under wraps. What would have been the effects of the conventional, and only the conventional, weapons being widely available? Who would have bought them and how would this increase in weapons systems affected the nineties? Who would have bought the weapons and how would they have been used? Some things, like the artillery and tanks i can see ending up in the Congo, but others like the Ukrainian Backfires?

Basically how would the glut of weapons effect the politics of the time, who would buy them, and what would the western response be. Questions like would the fifth generation fighters have come out quicker? Also would this massive sell off of military hardware have been enough to keep the Russian military out of the slump in went into in the nineties, and possibly made it politically relevant?
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