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look at all that artillery... truly, the king of battle
also note how the "fully reinforced" for NATO is all about North American forces, which would of course need to cross the entire Atlantic without getting dunked on by Soviet subs, so really the NATO numbers would probably be even lower
The Iraq Army of the Gulf War was supremely dysfunctional, poorly led and trained, sitting on the worst defensive terrain you can imagine, and had been savaged by weeks of air strikes that they were defenseless against. All of that had a lot more to do with their defeat than the tanks they were driving - by the same token, Abrams and Leopards were destroyed in large numbers by Soviet weaponry after being deployed incompetently by Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
Further complicating things was that the T-72s the Iraqis were using had old steel penetrators that lacked the complex protection designed to defeat western tank rounds in turn, along with being export models missing the nightvision and thermal optics that were standard on Soviet-fielded tanks.