User blog comment:Battlefield3EX/Who would win in a fight US or Russia in a WW3/@comment-1788799-20111014222658

The United States would win obviously. As large as Russia's army is, it is poorly funded, poorly trained, and for the most part, poorly equipped. It makes up for this in sheer numbers. But if Russia got the first move, at first it would overwhelm Europe and U.S. troops in Alaska before coming down through Canada into the United States. All of this assuming that it was non-Nuclear. At this point however, the Russian Juggernaut would stop as they would greatly over-stretch their supply lines. Transporting Food, Gasoline and Ammunition over that great a distance is simply too big a task even in the modern day. Russia would simply not be able to sustain any further an offensive and would grind to a halt. Its at this point that the U.S. would shift to a War Economy. What does this mean? It means all the factories would be making Tanks instead of Cars. All that crap about the U.S. Economy being in shit? Forget about it cause at this point, millions of new jobs would be created to build the tanks and the guns which would generate lots and lots of wealth for the United States. Meanwhile, in Canada, your oh so peaceful neighbors to the North would begin arming themselves and with the help of remnants of the Canadian Military, begin a nationwide insurgency to weaken the Russians and buy America enough time to launch a counter attack. Once the U.S. Army has regrouped, it would launch a counter attack up North, pushing the weakened Russians out of Canada and Alaska and taking back North America. After destroying this Russian Army, the U.S. would shift its attention to Europe. At this point, the Russians would be losing money. They would be no longer able to sustain this war. With the defeat in North America, they would have to put up with an invasion in Europe by the Americans and with the combined might of the American and European armies, Russia would be pushed out. Pushed out all the way back to Moscow and defeated. Fact is, America has superior equipment to the Russians. The AK is more reliable and more powerful, but the M4 is more accurate, more customizable, and much more suited to both Close Quarters and Long Range Combat. American Tanks are also faster, more reliable and more heavily armored than Russian Tanks and American Fighter Jets are superior to Russian Jets. It would be a tough fight, but when the smoke clears, America will be standing on top of the rubble not Russia. Also to all the people saying Nuclear War. Nuclear isn't as bad we like to imagine. In the event of a full scale Nuclear Conflict, the worst that would happen would be the downfall of Civilization. It wouldn't be the apocalypse. As the Nuclear Fire would cease burning, life would go on. The only targets to be hit by Nukes would be major metropolitan areas and the outskirts of those areas. That would take down at most only a fifth to a third of Humanity's population. The rest would move on and form a new society from the ruins. Essentially, it would be like Fallout. Sure human civilization has been utterly destroyed, but people are still alive, and people will continue to be alive.