User blog comment:Battlefield3EX/Who would win in a fight US or Russia in a WW3/@comment-4291264-20111016203958/@comment-71.239.231.154-20111017035904

The U.S. failed to defeat the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. The Soviet Union failed to defeat the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Both conflicts involved the rival superpower helping the enemy indirectly.