If we preemptively nuked the USSR and then sent in the troops to hold the ground and slowly convert the Eastern Bloc into a US state that almost certainly would have worked.
Yep. There were countries that didn’t want to be ruled by USSR, and there were republics that didn’t want to be a part of USSR, things would start falling apart if USSR could no longer keep them together by force. One nuke on Moscow, another nuke on Leningrad, and it might be all over.
Yep. There were countries that didn’t want to be ruled by USSR, and there were republics that didn’t want to be a part of USSR, things would start falling apart if USSR could no longer keep them together by force. One nuke on Moscow, another nuke on Leningrad, and it might be all over.