USSR invading the USA

Could they have done it at peak strength if they rolled over europe?

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No, their navy and air force wasn't nearly strong enough, and without naval and air supremacy any attempted invasion of the USA would be dead on arrival.

No. At its peak strength, the Soviet Navy existed purely to clear the Atlantic just long enough for the Red Army to reach the Bay of Biscay before the rest of the USN turned around and annihilated them. Any invasion would have been impossible.

At pretty much no point after WW1 could anyone have launched a successful invasion of the United States

Yes, europe only began to have even a semblance of a chance in the later 80s and even then not a good one

The soviets had a ridiculous numbers advantage on the ground and their economy was pretty much totally prepared for war the whole time

They didn't even have any carriers, they never could have gotten their troops across the Pacific or Atlantic to invade the USA.

Oh lol thought op meant invasion of europe not usa

Yeah no only if they invaded alaska through kamchatka but even then they would still have lost

Well, the eternal leaf was always a threat to let the Sovs invade through Canuckistan. They still are a threat. We should invade them and turn it into a slave colony.

>Yes, europe only began to have even a semblance of a chance in the later 80s and even then not a good one

Bullshit, British tankers and the RAF were the best trained troops in Europe and the entirety of NATO. The yanks or soviets didn't even come close, it would have been a turkey shoot as they attempted to drive their shitty BMP death boxes across Germany as challengers and tornados picked them off.

>Bullshit, British tankers and the RAF were the best trained troops in Europe and the entirety of NATO.
This is complete bullshit propaganda. The Falklands war proved that Britain was a shit tier power and that the neoliberal reforms really hurt them. Argentinian airforce with only 50's super etendards and Skyhawks with no air to air missiles, only WWII British bombs managed to sink several ships. If it wasn't for the aid from the US and Chile they would have lost completely.

The Falklands war is important because it proved two huge flaws:
1.- Ships were completely vulnerable to air attacks, so CIWS were invented
2.- Britain was utter shit and if the Soviets attacked they wouldn't been able to defend the Atlantic, which was a major heads up because everyone thought the budget cuts weren't that important to make them weak AF.

what about a red dawn style scenario in which they invade through mexico and with latin american allies?
i have a feeling they would just get strafed the whole time they advanced through mexico

Assuming the Soviets were able to assemble a fleet capable of carrying a large invasion force and get it across the Pacific without being sunk, they might be able to launch an incursion into Alaska or even Hawaii but not the mainland United States. Much of the US coast is unsuitable for landings and the areas that are would be covered with urban sprawl, which would be a nightmare to fight in. If the Russians make a landing in Los Angeles, they would have to fight through 5,000 square miles of city before reaching the open countryside where they could use their armor and airpower most efficiently. Chances are, they wouldn't be able to take even a fraction of that before being pushed back into the sea.

The only Soviet ally in Latin America that was worth a damn was Cuba and Grenada showed that even their usefulness was very limited.

It was limited because the Soviets needed them that way. After the missile crisis they wondered if it was a good idea to keep one unaccounted nuclear bomb there because the us hadn't included it in the treaty (meaning they didn't knew about it) so Soviets made a psychological profile on Castro and determined he was completely pissed off because he realized he was just a pawn in a big dog brawl and giving a nuclear weapon to a guy like that would.mean he was really prone to use it.

So, they took it back because no one needs some idiot beginning judgement day just because he is pissed off

>50s Super Enterdant

Ah fuck you're right,only Skyhawks were from the 50's. Still, shit tier either way

even if they had a land border with the US they would not succeed

No chance in hell. Even if they by some miracle manage to gain a foothold on the mainland U.S they will get fucked over by guerrillas and the U.S military

>hurr my cuntry stronk
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Get out of here, lindy

If they nuked every inch of the mainland before touching down then sure. Otherwise no, zero chance whatsoever.

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Well then they can actually engage the american army properly but all their supplies for their russian equipment still have to come from overseas

Nope. Easy. They didn't. If they could have, they would have.

we never even had a war plan for that shit
this is literally americans jerking themselves off

that would involve amphibious ops and the soviet navy was laughable

The USSR was far more inept than ameriblob propagana indicated. Even if they managed to penetrate the west German border and their air force wasn't pasted within hours they didn't have enough supplies to progress far.

*teleports behind you*

Heh.....nothing personal kid

Since it seems pretty clear that the Soviets had no chance of conquering the US, would the US have been able to successfully invade the Soviet Union?

Depends if nukes are an option or not.

See 'operation unthinkable'. Churchill had a planned invasion of the USSR following Nazi defeat. Without atomic weapons this is highly unlikely as all of eastern Europe was host to the vast armies of the Soviet union who outnumbered the allies considerably. It's likely the USAAF will outnumber the soviet airforce although Russia is simply too large to be significantly crippled by this.

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No because the war would have gone nuclear before they were ever allowed to roll over europe

>France is forever the center of the World
Feels good man.

some Hunn landed on the Red Square, he wasnt shot down because Soviets did not wanted to shoot at obviously civilian airplane flying at low speed, it got memed as an error of the Soviet AA defence

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>what are nuclear missiles.

>would the US have been able to successfully invade the Soviet Union?

no

NATO was allowed to push the front to Morava river
if there wasn't a successful counteroffensive at that point, we were to start raining nukes on them

>Morava river
Both sides had that as their strategy, to use nukes if the other massed their forces and pushed forward.

Russians

>British tankers and the RAF were the best trained troops in Europe and the entirety of NATO
lol

Neither the US or the USSR have the capability to wage direct war on each other, both countries ability to project power would be the limiting factor. whichever country thinks they "can" will lose, (even with the US having bases in western europe.

They would have the same problems the Germans would have had invading the Brits in the 40s