A hot war with Russia (which is what 'direct intervention to overthrow Putin' would entail) means they'll be prioritizing the cities (read: bugman hives and diversity clusters) for nuclear annihilation, that's just basic military logic. If it gets to that point Putin would glass Washington DC (what with it hosting the heart of the US government & the Pentagon) long before he even thinks about dropping a big hot one on the backwoods of Idaho.
That's assuming the missiles all get through. Those bugman hives are higher priority for air and missile defense, as well, and the US missile defense systems are actually very good.
I would predict that a couple of cities get nuked, followed by a long, drawn out ground war through tundra.
Eh, we'll only find out just how good the Western world's air defenses if it actually happens (I hope we don't, but I live in a suburb of a city in a Western country that isn't the US and thus not likely to enjoy advanced ABM/anti-air protection, making it absolutely fucked in a hot war).
Doesn't have to be every single nuke that gets through either, right? More-so things depend on which nukes make it through. If that 'couple of cities' that get nuked happen to be the most important power-centers of the globohomo regime (NYC, DC, LA, etc.) and the puppet-masters themselves are the ones who get vaporized then that takes out the decision-makers and their sheep who have the most interest in carrying on a hot war. Heh, we should be so lucky...
A hot war with Russia (which is what 'direct intervention to overthrow Putin' would entail) means they'll be prioritizing the cities (read: bugman hives and diversity clusters) for nuclear annihilation, that's just basic military logic. If it gets to that point Putin would glass Washington DC (what with it hosting the heart of the US government & the Pentagon) long before he even thinks about dropping a big hot one on the backwoods of Idaho.
That's assuming the missiles all get through. Those bugman hives are higher priority for air and missile defense, as well, and the US missile defense systems are actually very good.
I would predict that a couple of cities get nuked, followed by a long, drawn out ground war through tundra.
Eh, we'll only find out just how good the Western world's air defenses if it actually happens (I hope we don't, but I live in a suburb of a city in a Western country that isn't the US and thus not likely to enjoy advanced ABM/anti-air protection, making it absolutely fucked in a hot war).
Doesn't have to be every single nuke that gets through either, right? More-so things depend on which nukes make it through. If that 'couple of cities' that get nuked happen to be the most important power-centers of the globohomo regime (NYC, DC, LA, etc.) and the puppet-masters themselves are the ones who get vaporized then that takes out the decision-makers and their sheep who have the most interest in carrying on a hot war. Heh, we should be so lucky...