Duxa wrote:
After a 4 hour game I as USSR drew the War Games card. Defcon was at 3, I proceeded to coup during the first action round and then played the War games in 2nd action round. I was ahead at 12VPs, so after being brought down to 6 I secured the Soviet victory!
Now, the text of the card is straight forward, no issues there. However it got me to thinking. What does it mean for the world?
Looking back at real history its hard to say that the world ended, because it obviously didnt. But that would also mean no-one won, most would argue Cold War still rages, there will always be an arms race and so far US and Russia are still the 2 dominant world powers, perhaps they arent as influential as they were during the cold war, but they still get to decide what happens in most global events. Russia still sells weapons to the same countries, still Veto's UN resolutions and still passes anti American laws, US still deploys Ground to Air defenses in the Baltic region, still passes anti Russia laws and still fights Russia equipped troops all over the world... woah.. strayed from my point... ok back to point...
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Now, the text of the card is straight forward, no issues there. However it got me to thinking. What does it mean for the world?
Looking back at real history its hard to say that the world ended, because it obviously didnt. But that would also mean no-one won, most would argue Cold War still rages, there will always be an arms race and so far US and Russia are still the 2 dominant world powers, perhaps they arent as influential as they were during the cold war, but they still get to decide what happens in most global events. Russia still sells weapons to the same countries, still Veto's UN resolutions and still passes anti American laws, US still deploys Ground to Air defenses in the Baltic region, still passes anti Russia laws and still fights Russia equipped troops all over the world... woah.. strayed from my point... ok back to point...
Strongly disagree- "most" would say Cold War ended 1989-1991 with a decisive US victory in which the Russians lost their East European sphere of influence and the USSR itself ceased to exist. The survival in atttenuated form of a Russsian state does not diminish US victory (in many ways complete anarchy in the former USSR would be much worse for US interests, to say nothing of the danger of China retaking much territory in the east).
Back to the topic- Wargames: One side conducts large scale and threatening military exercises, causing a loss of prestige among non-aligned states. As a result of these exercises, without pausing to consider long-term trends, one side or the other decides that it could not win unless it used nuclear weapons, and, based on computer predictions of what that would imply, decides to give up the struggle instead (precise form this would take probably varies from side to side and with wider circumstances). I don't see any nuclear exchange here- after all there is none in the movie.