Featured Could this ever happen?

Didn't the Russians have some feller by the name of Stalin? Seems I read that somewhere.

 

No, because the logistical problems involved for Russia to hide the movement of all that manpower and equipment half way around the world would be impossible. In other words, we would see them coming and stop them before they got near us.

Yes, Russia could be as cruel as they were in the movie. They have a history of it. Stalin, anyone? More recently Russians gassed everyone in a theater to kill 40 or 50 terrorists that were holding over 500 people hostage. Over 100 civilian hostages died. (I think I've got the numbers correct. I remember it was about a year after 911.)

 

You mean try to stop them? I refer to Putin's recent aggressiveness and Obama's "flexibility".

 

They showed paratroopers and cargo planes in the movie, but they never expounded on how they could have invaded with so many people and equipment. IIRC, there was no mention of moving up through Mexico.

 

Yeah, you're right. My bad. Here's the closed captioning from the movie:
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Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico. Cubans, mostly.

They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the midwest, several down in Texas and wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you.

They opened up the door down there and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan armies come walking right through and rolled right up here through the Great Plains.

How far did they get?

Cheyenne across to Kansas.

We held them at the Rockies and at the Mississippi. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped their butt cold.

 

Col. Tanner, the downed U.S. pilot rescued by the Wolverines, informed them of how it was done. Kansas City, Chicago and New Orleans, the communications hubs of the U.S., were hit with nukes, as was D.C., L.A., NYC, and a few others I can't really remember. Seems to me Denver and Atlanta might have been among them.

Commercial airliners flying their normal routes turned out to be masking Soviet troop planes shadowing them, and the planes dropped paratroopers into key crossroads towns and cities between the major cities eliminated by nukes. And yes, Tanner mentions Nicaraguan troops coming through Mexico, taking Harlingen, Texas after blowing a regional power plant, and spearheading three tactical maneuvers designed to take territory quickly and establish local checkpoints along major thoroughfares, thus controlling traffic, evacuations, and ground-based counterattacks. Still, counterattacking U.S. troops kept them pinned in a giant triangle, roughly from Salina, Kansas as the northern pinnacle and a line from Corpus Christi to Gulfport as the base, with all of Texas below that line also under Cuban/Nicaraguan control. The pockets where paratroopers had established beachheads behind U.S. lines were gradually eliminated. The original movie, set in Calumet Colorado, was on the western leg of the triangle.

 

Seriously?

 

Which I find more frightening than a Russian invasion. Just saying.

 

Head Shed material? :tonofbricks: