• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        17 days ago

        There’s only like 2 months of the year where an invasion would even be possible. The weather is just too cold outside of that.

        So they would have to launch the invasion and secure their position in 4 weeks. If they fail everyone freezes to death, if they don’t get their ships out in time they’ll be frozen in, wind speeds are usually too high even when it is warm enough for a helicopter to fly so everything’s got to be ground-based and despite having a very large military the US only has around 500 cold weather trained personnel.

        It really isn’t anywhere near the foregone conclusion that everyone seems to think it will be.

        The country also only has one airport, bomb or otherwise incapacitate that and now they can’t air drop supplies.