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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 current Russian experience in Ukraine shows two things:
The combat effectiveness of Russian military forces is generally not up to its advertised value. We even saw this in Desert Storm, so it’s not a recent result of their collapse into kleptocracy.
Also, it reinforces the saying that great generals study logistics, not strategy. I could not even imagine being the guy who had a multiple mile long column of tanks idling on the road and running out of fuel. If the Ukrainian army had the advanced weapons back then, there would have been a thousand burning tanks that day.
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