Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "What if the Cold War was a Normal War?" video.

  1. So positing in this scenario , the nuke war starts in 1953, so instead of the death of Stalin, Stalin starts WW3 . So historically in 1955, USSR had 200 nukes , the USA had around 2500 nukes. So In 1953, USSR would have 150 nukes. In an event of WW3 in 1953, USA would have had enough nukes to nuke both the Chinese and the USSR. So let's say the USA uses 1500 nukes on the USSR, 500 nukes on China. As for Soviet bombers, circa 1953, the longest ranged one which can reach the USA was the TU-4, esssentially a reverse engineered B-29, which can reach Los Angeles or Chicago on a one way suicide run from the edge of USSR territory. the USA on the other hand can hit most of the USSR with B-36s and B-47s and B-29s. Yah let's say the USSR gets lucky manages to nuke NYC, DC and LA but nukes hundreds of cities on the Chinese and Soviet side. The USA would win WW3, USSR and China will not collapse but will be so hard hit and they would become insular nations with their communist govs trying to hold on to power. Their economic systems cant handle the strain and both countries would probably collapse in 10-20 years. Europe would get hit hard with Soviet nukes. US would again marshal plan Europe while isolating the USSR and China. As of 2021, USA is the sole superpower of the world. Even more so than it is now. USSR and China have balkanized into seperate states. With the whole world under the sway of the USA since the 60s. with the collapse of the USSR and China. USA and its allies focus on Space colonization. By 2021, we have moon bases , start of mars colonies. World corporations start becoming more and more powerful. and have so much influence on USA and world politics. It can be said that the USA of 2021 is a corporate run state with both parties as their mouth pieces.
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  2.  @genalynnesanjuan5788  that is quite true. I highly agree with you. USA wins and becomes the supreme super power in the world only to become a corporate state dictatorship masquerading as a dictatorship, if the USA does not have anyone to fight, it stagnates and so does the rest of the world. That is why I said in the end. Its a corporate state that has the 2 poltical parties as mouth pieces or a Corporate oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.
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  3.  @genalynnesanjuan5788  I can see some countries stepping up to the plate like a possible Japanese-Chinese-Russian led corporate alliance to oppose American corporates. sometime in the 2000s.
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  4. been a while.
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