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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
Every time the US went adventuring in Iraq they made sure to pay off all the Iraqi generals and warlords to lay down arms ahead of time, Americans bought themselves a cakewalk because they didn't face any significant opposition lol