☭ The world at War ☭ - The Soviet Union in World War 3

[Bill1993]

The mighty Union can easily occupy all continents.Is that defeatism?If so report to the nearest KGB office for reeducation.
Jokes aside I think America can hear the red alert ringing.Keep up this great aar.

 

[oberstbrooksy]

Red Dawn, Part Two. August 10th 1977 - October 1977

The Soviet Invasion of Alaska and the Korean/Chinese Invasion of Japan were at the same time a feat of masterful planning and intelligence coups, but also the sign of a growing desperation and fundamental weakness in Soviet attitudes, strategies and outlooks of the conflict. Since NATO's defeat in Western Europe, a massive American expeditionary forces was being prepared and trained for the eventual invasion of either Western Europe or South Eastern Asia, the need to prevent this and keep the initiative was paramount for continued Soviet dominance in the war, as such the decision to strike rather than react to a NATO strike became the strategy after the short Arab war. The ability to mount almost simultaneous invasions of Japan and Alaska was the great victory in itself, Soviet disinformation and Shanghai Pact build up in Korea lured in the American expeditionary force into deploying to Japan and Formosa. The great ruse had been laid. Soviet strategy envisioned that the sheer weight of Chinese and Korean numbers buoyed up with some Soviet technology would bog down the American force in Japan, while the Soviet invasion cut off oil from Alaska and potentially convinced the USA to come to terms, if not then the third part of Operation Red Dawn, Operation Zenith would go into effect.

Chinese Armour Pushes in Land from the Invasion Beachhead

The decision to invade itself was a sign of the strategic overlay, unable to convince NATO to come to a peace settlement, the only option for the USSR was to wait to face the inevitable NATO invasion or take the initiative to invade itself. Added to this dynamic was the ongoing power struggle in the Politburo for the person and faction to take power, with the passing of Brezhnev the decision came down to the hardliners of Chernenko, Andropov and Ustinov and the more moderate reformers that had been given heart by the Khrushchev era, clustered around Kosygin the moderate and reformist faction had dwelt deeply unhappy under the Brezhev coup but was largely placated by the success of the war. However with the home front starting to degenerate into economic collapse and the death toll forever reaching higher, both sides began to drift on the ultimate solution to the conflict. The hardliners favoured a substantive Soviet military victory and negotiation from a position of strength over NATO, the reformers more favoured a measured and diplomatic approach in order to secure the vital peace and fend off the economic crisis gripping the nation. With the invasion Andropov, the KGB chief, the biggest proponent of the invasion had secured the confidence of the Politburo and became the 6th Premier of the USSR and General Secretary of the Communist Party. As long as the war and the invasion goes well, Andropov and the conservative faction would hold the political capital to maintain the reigns and direction of power. Andropov would now lead the USSR in its war against the United States led by President Ford who continued the Republican domination of US politics in the 1976 US presidential elections.

Yuri Andropov, 5th Premier of the USSR, his Succession During the Invasion of Alaska was Naturally Subject to much Analysis in Western Press

In the opening days of the invasion, the US national guard had been caught completely unaware and disorganised. The main targets of the first phase of the invasion was the command, control and communication which were crippled in the preliminary bombing campaign, for the actual airborne invasion it was critical that the port of Anchorage, the civil airport Elmendorf and Kulis airforce bases be taken intact to facilitate the main body of the invasion. When the first VDV began landing around 06:30 the defenders had begun to muster around the airbases and the centre of the city, by 07:00 the undefended civil airport was secured and VDV had skirmished with local law enforcement as they pushed into the suburbs towards the city centre. The shock tactics of the VDV backed up by the arrival of their first armour quickly secured the civil airport and outmatched the light armament and soft skinned vehicles of the Alaskan national guard garrison, for the next two hours the VDV would wrest control of the city centre and the port from the police and national guard. The centre of Anchorage largely burned as the VDV sought to flush out the defenders quickly rather than take the precious time to clear them out, the port was more delicately secured with light damage to the facilities. As the VDV encroached upon the air-force base, a number of American aircraft began to taxi and take off, escaping the clutching Soviet assault, with Soviet gunships arriving from the first transports setting down on the civil airport, the route for escape collapsed, a C-130 was destroyed on the runway blocking it, and the highway to the North was blocked by another VDV detachment securing settlements to the North. Through out the day the VDV would battle across the tarmac until 17:00 the base fell, with it several American F-4s a handful of C-130's and the valuable remains of the intelligence operations conducted from the airport. Almost as soon as the city was secured, fleeing American troops and law enforcement melted into the vast forests, signals were sent to the invasion fleet and work began repairing damage to the port and airfields as well as defensive positions being erected.

Central Anchorage Burns during the Afternoon of August 8th

Elsewhere VDV secured secured most of Western Alaska, with Nome falling with out a shot to a Soviet submarine based amphibious invasion by Soviet Marines, the Alaskan island chain was taken from the smouldering ruins of the listening and radar installations on Attu islands to the stubborn defenders of Dutch harbour, Adak escaped the first assault due to the little strategic value of the island, however it would fall with in a week to a sustained marine assault. With the main-body of the invasion fleet landing over the 8th-10th of August, the first armoured and mechanised infantry divisions set off for the advance on the next key objectives of the invasion, the oil refineries at Valdez and the capital of Alaska and the major military and logistics hub of Fairbanks. The US quickly recovered from the shock, flying in reinforcements and using the train network to bring in Canadian infantry and armour, any hope of taking Valdez and Fairbanks as quickly, especially before the Autumn snows blew in evaporated. Through August hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops would be landed as hundreds of thousands of American and Canadian troops digging in around Fairbanks and the mountains of Valdez, the mountainous terrain of Alaska strongly favoured the defenders, the Alaskan campaign had begun.

Soviet Mechanised Infantry in the Push on Fairbanks

In Japan the Korean and Chinese beachheads had linked up from Joetsu in the North and Tottori in the South, a vicious and bloody battle between the Peoples Liberation Army and fanatical Japanese defenders in Kyoto marked the high watermark for the initial advance of the invasion by September, a month of heavily attritional fighting later Kyoto fell to the Pact assault. Kept in check from overwhelming the Japanese military, the American expeditionary force were instrumental in checking the advance of Shanghai Pact forces in Japan and slowing it into brutal house to house and hill to hill combat across Eastern Japan. However Pact dominance of the Sea of Japan ensured a steady flow of near limitless Asian Pact troops into the theatre

US Forces Preparing a Defensive Line to the West of Kyoto

With American forces building up in significant numbers around Fairbanks and a major battle in the under taking, preparations were put in place for the third phase of the invasion. As American M60's and newer Abrams tanks clashed with Soviet T-72's and T80's in the mountain ranges and finally into the planes of the Alaskan interior, the VDV divisions were regrouping in Anchorage. Sensing the opportunity to deal the decisive blow needed a massive trap was being laid. With the colder weather making the unpassable tundra of of the Arctic creep ever south wards, Soviet command in Alaska sought to cut off the crucial life lines to the American forces in Alaska in time for the full brunt of Winter. On October 10th VDV troops under the safety of significant fighter support began dropping onto the three main logistic hubs supporting NATO operations in Alaska, Dawson and Whitehorse Canada and Skagway Alaska fell to Soviet paratroopers and with them the critical road and rail connections to Alaska. 175,000 US and Canadian troops with out clear supply lines were now trapped in Alaska facing almost 300,000 Soviet troops, and the first territory of Canada fell to Soviet occupation.

VDV Landing Near Dawson

The landing itself was lauded at the August 10th Victory Day parade in Moscow, a meeting of the party congress exulted the success of the Soviet soldiers and the inevitable triumph of communism. The continued success of the invasion endowed Andropov with immense standing in the party and he boasted ''with in a year we will toast the victory of socialism in Washington''. Soviet propaganda was dominated with the exploits of their brother soldiers in the heart of the capitalist beast, the horrors of the Japanese front, declining agricultural yields, black outs or tensions and insurgencies across the Soviet Empire never bubbled up into Vremya's reporting. Feeling stable enough, Andropov gave the green light in September for the final overthrow of Mittag and his mad regime in Germany, a palace coup in Berlin seen him arrested and executed for trumped up charges of treason and corruption against the party, with KGB blessing a more agreeable administration led by Erich Honecker came into power, to solidify Soviet backing he pledged 70'000 troops for the Alaskan front and to solidify the European Pact and lay the frame work for the Pan European Socialist Congress. One of the final acts of Brezhev before his coma was to effectively remove the vast majority of the Chinese military from Chinese control, integrating it more under a newly solidified Shanghai Pact Command led by the Koreans. The reasons for this was two fold, to better utilise the Chinese army under the superior command of the battle hardened Koreans, secondly, Beijing was falling into anarchy, six coups in two years proved to be enough. Andropov had been working on a solution to this Chinese anarchy in his final years as KGB chief, he now gave support fully to a daring scheme to correct this wayward ally of Moscow.

The 1977 Party Congress Solidified the Ascendant Andropov and his new Regime

With the Alaskan campgain dragging into the late Autumn and Winter of 1977, the Soviet navy set to sea to prepare for the forth and final phase of the invasion. Ever since the Soviet Atlantic fleet was confined to port due to the superiority of the US and British Royal navies in the West, the Pacific fleet had been building up. In Autumn 1977 navy commander felt confidant to expand their role from protecting the invasion and its supply lines to begin goading the NATO naval power in the Pacific, especially the US carrier task force hiding in the vast North Pacific Ocean, Soviet Naval strategy was to seek a decisive carrier battle in the North Pacific.

Soviet Kiev and Ulyanovsk Carrier Classes Convinced Soviet Command that they Could Wrest Control from the US Navy of the North Pacific, Especially with the completion of Twelve Ulyanovsk Class Carriers to join the Fleet​

 

[oberstbrooksy]

anyone have a simple event/nation making tutorial?

I might dabble in making this a bit more interesting?

 

[Viden]

I find this quite interesting.

 

[oberstbrooksy]

Red Dawn, Operation Red October. October 1977 - November 22nd 1977

With the war in North America deepening, the Soviet fleet was intensifying its operations in the North and Western Pacific. Soviet submarines were harassing American supply convoys destined for Japan off the coast of Southern California, the Soviet carrier fleets of which there were three, probed ever further South down the Canadian coast. On October 29th Soviet naval aviation bombed the airforce and naval facilities in Vancouver, no Canadian or US naval shipping were in port. The naval game of cat and mouse would carry on till November 15th when the Soviet 6th fleet stumbled upon the bulk of the US pacific fleet.

A Soviet Missile Crusier off the Coast of Vancouver Island

The next week would see the largest sea battle of the war, the 6th fleet quickly relayed the news to the rest of the Soviet task force. Over 2000 kilometres from Vancouver island and 1,200 kilometres from Alaska the US and Soviet fleets would fight the decisive battle both had for long been longing for. The battle of the North Pacific was about to start, the Soviet were at a disadvantage, American carriers were larger in their aircraft compliment to the Soviet ones and the American Pacific fleet far outnumbered the Soviet invasion taskforce. However the American fleet was dispersed and some of its cruisers and destroyer screens as well as its lighter carriers were supporting American efforts in Japan, and the Soviet fleet could count on its land based bomber fleet from Anchorage to harass the American fleet. For the first couple days of the battle the fleets mustered themselves into formation and probing air attacks, however the unsettled weather prevented any large scale operations. By the third day the weather cleared and both sides struck in the late morning and midday, Soviet fighters protecting their bombers stumbled into the American attacking force. Both side took a bad mauling however the greater American numbers pushed back the Soviets and the fleet was attacked, a frigate and destroyer was sunk and a cruiser damaged before the raiders were fought off. That night Soviet Tu-160 deploying a massed attack of cruise missiles critically damaged the USS Enterprise and destroyed the USS Nimitz along with 3 destroyers and two cruisers, the USS Missouri was heavily damaged and the nuclear battleship, the USS Devastation was sunk by a Soviet submarine off the coast of Northern California.

An Artists Impression of The Nimitz being Catastrophically Damaged

The following days seen heavy blows befall each side, Soviet carriers were struck and sunk, the Soviet Nuclear battleship Zhukov exploded when struck by an American submarine, American screening vessels were decimated by massed Soviet anti ship ballistic missiles, and a number of cruisers lost to Soviet air attack. However their carriers remained safe behind the screening vessels, the attritional nature of the battle was not going in the Soviet favour. On the 5th day the loss of three Soviet fleet carriers pushed the Soviet commitment to battle to the limits, with the next phase of the Soviet invasion, the invasion and even the war itself staked upon Soviet control of the North Pacific the war turned burning hot again.

The Soviet Cruiser Crimson Baltic Comes Under Heavy American Air Attack Before its Loss

The late evening of the 20th and the early morning of the 21st a hurried exchange of communications between the fleet, to Naval command in Vladivostok to Moscow eventually to Anchorage determined the final stroke to steal victory from the jaws of the overwhelming American fleet that was bearing down on the floundering Soviet task force. The fleet was attempting to muster a defensive screen against the coming American aerial assault, even more so as two more Canadian carriers and numerous light carriers joined the American fleet. In the early morning 16 Tu-160 bombers took off from the Anchorage airfields while Soviet electronic aircraft hazed the US fleet protected by fighter escort. In an effort to draw the American fighter screens off the fleet, Soviet carrier based aircraft lunched a distraction attack on the approaching American 9th fleet coming from Seattle. They largely took the bait. At around 17:30 the Soviet bombers had broken into four formations and approached the fleet from four different angles, four sets of three bombers deployed a large number of smaller conventional anti ship missiles against the fleet however the four remaining bombers using the first missile launches as a distraction deployed their weapons.

An Image Captured of one of the Bombers Involved in the Attack

17:57 was the moment the first tactical nuclear weapon detonated on target, above an American carrier, seven more detonations erupted at points around the American fleet over the next two minutes.

A Canadian Fighter Camera Captures the Mushroom Cloud over the USS Daedalus

Five American carriers were destroyed, one battleship, three Cruisers, four Frigates and Seven destroyers were destroyed, an electronic warfare ship was so catastrophically damaged it was scuttled. With many more ships heavily damaged the American fleet withdrew from the battle unaware that in the confusion and under the cover of the communications blackout from the after effects of the nuclear attack the Soviet fleet had long since set sail to safer waters. Both sides claimed victory in the Battle of the North Pacific, however with the bulk of the American fleet and even more so its carriers limping back to Pearl harbour the decisive edge of victory lay with the Soviets. With the majority of the task force still combat worthy they would be able to support the next phase of the invasion. However thoughts on what or where the American retaliation would hang heavy over the minds of Soviet planners.

The Soviet Fleet takes Stock of its Losses ​

 

[trekfan]

critically damaged the USS Enterprise

You monster

 

[oberstbrooksy]

You monster

The Commie pain train stops for no Imperialist

 

[CanadaKing]

Soon America shall be painted in red!
BLOOD RED

Noice update m8

 

[Asalto]

Nice description of naval warfare!

 

[Mkoll13]

Forward Soviet!

 

[oberstbrooksy]

Red Dawn, The North American Front. November 1977 - August 1978

While a major battle was taking place a sea, the encirclement of the NATO forces in Alaska was being completed. The VDV landing along the Canadian frontier had cut supplies and reinforcements the NATO strong points in Valdez and Fairbanks. Under the unrelenting air support and formidable Soviet numbers in armour the American defenders of Valdez were pushed out on November 29th, but not before the entire oil refinery complex was utterly destroyed by the battle.

The Fire of Valdez Lit up the Alaskan Skies for Hundreds of Miles

A major airlift by the US Air Force from Fairbanks managed to evacuate many tens of thousands of troops and some of the heavier equipment from the doomed city under siege. Heavy fighter cover and persistent ground based SAMs kept Soviet raiders at bay. However the final Soviet assault began on November 30th, a saturation rocket and artillery barrage reduced the city from its centre to its suburbs. With the city almost completely razed the Soviets broke through the outer defences of the city and pushed through till eventually the last American defenders capitulated amongst the ruins of the University and airport on December 6th. Heavy causalities were inflicted on both sides with several NATO units managing a break out and escaped towards the Canadian border before eventually being destroyed near Whitehorse. Almost the entire civil population was killed or fled the city in the battle, the survivors were resettled under the Soviet occupation authorities to large holding camps to the South of the ashes of Fairbanks or to the ''Anchorage Free City''.
With Nato now defeated in Alaska the Soviet army began moving south down the Alaskan Pan handle and into Canada for the push south.

Soviet GRAD Rockets Artillery During the Battle of Fairbanks

As the war in America drew into an especially harsh Winter and the issue of Nato prisoners in Alaska as well as the civil population an occupational policy needed to be drawn up, surprisingly very little thought had been given to how to administer the occupied territories before the invasion. Moscow delegated command of the occupational forces and authority to General Akhromeyev, the hero of the Soviet-Arab war, attempting to find collaborators to act as a buffer between the Soviet authorities and the American and Canadian population. Where hardliners sought to impose a strict form of socialism on the occupied territories, they were over ruled as it was almost certain this territory would be handed back to the Americans once a peace had been secured, as such the Soviet occupation policy did not incorporate overt socialisation. Instead it sought to centralise the population in large sparsely populated regions like Alaska and northern Canada for reasons of security and control, small Alaskan towns and villages were rapidly depopulated and their inhabitants sent to Anchorage or Fairbanks which quickly became ghetto like cities of refugees and expellees in tents or hurriedly prepared prefabricated housing. Causing much resentment through this policy many Alaskans escaped before deportation into the mountains and forests in hopes of finding the many bands of Nato escapees in resisting the Soviet invasion. However while rumours of the ''Free Alaskan Republic'' abounded the unusually harsh Winter would quickly lead to many of the less prepared to perish in the snow. For those in the occupational zones they had things some what better, a steady supply of adequate rations, shelter and warmth would see them through the Winter, however the civil population and tens of thousands of Nato prisoners would be used as the work force for the Soviet authorities seeking to increase the logistic infrastructure and tenements in which to house their captive population.

A Soviet Processing Camp Near Fairbanks, Winter 1977

In the rest of the world, the Soviet occupation of the Middle East came to a formal end. Desperate to pull out much needed men and material a coalition of Arab socialists and communists formed a pan Arab state, the Arab Socialist Federal Republic united Arabs from Egypt to Iraq, Syria to Yemen. A Middle Eastern super state, while a theoretically global power due alone to its control of much of global oil production, it was another puppet regime to the USSR and it was deeply unstable. Popular Islamist resistance constantly challenged its legitimacy, the largely religious minority make up of its hierarchy deeply alienated it from the Sunni majority it governed, corruptions undercut its efficiency and policy of using troops from one nationality in the Union to suppress the revolt of the other bred sectarianism. Famine had erupted in China with vengeance and still anarchy ruled in Beijing, Moscow had long since grown tired of the Chinese problem and a KGB initiated coup in November 1977 installed Deng Xiaoping in hopes he could bring some order to the Chinese disaster. In the USSR Andropov was keen to integrate the Mongolian People's Republic and the Finnish Democratic Republic into the USSR as its 16th and 17th Republics of the Union, the moves had been on the cards for a number of years, Finland was always under close control of Moscow since its defeat in the Great Patriotic War, Mongolia had remained almost a ghost state for decades, its economy and military were totally tied to the Soviet Union however it suffered from lower standards of life and production. Using its influence upon its politics, expansionists in the Politburo had long sought to bring Mongolia with in the Union as a strong message and signal towards the wayward regime in China.

Islamic Insurgents in Arabia

American retaliation for the Soviet nuclear strikes at sea were returned in Japan. The extremely harsh and attritional nature of the Japanese campaign had devastated Eastern Japan, the fanatical resistance of the Japanese with the added might of the Americans pitted against the overwhelming numbers of the Chinese and the tactics and experience of the Koreans produced a ruthless war. The mountainous terrain which gave way into vast urban expanses of Japan denied the use of superior fire power to evict the Japanese, instead bloody hill to hill and house to house fighting developed. However a successful offensive in Kyoto threw the Japanese defensive line into disarray and the PLA picked up speed and pushed hard hoping to divide Honshu and reach Nagoya. To prevent this the United States used tactical nuclear weaponry to destroy the Chinese offensive and contain it too the Kyoto region, they also used tactical nuclear weapons on the mainlanding zone at Takaoka. A doctrine of measured nuclear retaliation was developing in the war.

US Forces in Japan before the Nuclear Bombing

Back in North America the spring thaws had enabled the Soviet push to continue, a major offensive was directed with its ultimate goal being Vancouver. The thaws caused major delays and mud was a constant issue, when the Soviet armour reached the front lines established by the VDV the day before they pushed hard against American defensive lines, reaching Prince George by March the combined Soviet shock armies made a concentrated pushed towards Vancouver. The Canadians had been digging in around the city through out the Winter and the civil populous was largely evacuated South and East, the initial pushes to the far north of Vancouver proved fruitless as the Nato defences in the mountains were far too strong and would exact a far higher price than was worth it. So would begin the Battle of Prince George.

Soviet Armour Moving out for Prince George

The initial Canadian and American defensive line was easily crushed, however reacting quickly the US army began deploying massive amounts of men and material into the British Columbian interior. Along winding mountainous road and tracks Soviet armour and mechanized infantry edged along the forest covered mountains stopping when they came up against American positions, from mountain to mountain to valley to valley Soviet and American infantry fought vicious battles trying to clear the way or halt the advance of the Soviet armoured columns. With no airfields close to the zone of battles Soviet airpower couldn't be brought accurately to bear on the battle, however Soviet fighters fought with American fighters over British Columbia, artillery, munitions or burning wreckage sparked many forest fires that would turn the once lush British Columbian forests into charred ash through out the Summer of 1978. Tenacious American defence took a heavy toll on the Soviet advance, however the battle was still progressing heavily infavour of the USSR.

Soviet Infantry taking cover behind Advancing Armour

The sluggish progress of the advance was gruelling, as every mountain became an American strong point to be over come by infantry, the rains turning tracks into mud, roads being destroyed turned the battle into a largely infantry and artillery affair. Out of this came the conclusion that Soviet infantry was largely inferior in equipment and training to their US and Canadian opponents, however their experience some times covered gap in equipment.

Soviet Superiority in Armour was Lost in the Mud and the Mountainous Terrain

By June after almost 150,000 losses to each side the Soviets broke through onto the Interior Plateau, with more better terrain the Soviet armour began to become a bigger and valued asset in the battle. If Nato can be evicted from the interior then the USSR will be able to flank the defensive strong point North of Vancouver and hopefully secure the city. With the Americans constantly rotating forces in and out of the battle the Soviet offensive was slowly being sapped, but after inflicting a heavy toll on the US defenders. With a supporting attack opened by the Soviet forces who had pushed in from the Yukon and Northern British Columbia on the American Northern flank adding increased pressure. By August leaving behind numerous firestorms in the mountain forests, the Soviets had nearly evicted the Nato defenders from the interior, a final push would secure victory.

The Battle had seen some of the Harshest Fighting between Soviet and American Troops of the War
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[Baron Jukaga]

Great AAR and a chilling update for me. As your advance pushes on Vancouver, my likely widowed pregnant mom is fleeing with me eastwards. You monster.

Given the state of our highways back in '78 I can see why the fighting would be so brutal, there isn't much maneuver room in northern BC for armored columns.

 

[Attalus]

The war will be hard for both sides. Americans have the advantage of fighting on their own soil though but the Soviets are bringing more and more forces in the battlefield. Maybe the Black Panthers could lead a wide insurrection in the South ?
Maybe we could have a sneak attack on britain ?

 

[oberstbrooksy]

Great AAR and a chilling update for me. As your advance pushes on Vancouver, my likely widowed pregnant mom is fleeing with me eastwards. You monster.

Given the state of our highways back in '78 I can see why the fighting would be so brutal, there isn't much maneuver room in northern BC for armored columns.

Sorry about that...

But yeah, the amount of time it takes to move from province to province is excruciatingly slow, even more so when the Americans keep abusing strat deploying in hordes of units into the province you are trying to take

 

[oberstbrooksy]

The war will be hard for both sides. Americans have the advantage of fighting on their own soil though but the Soviets are bringing more and more forces in the battlefield. Maybe the Black Panthers could lead a wide insurrection in the South ?
Maybe we could have a sneak attack on britain ?

Britain is a no go, hundred tier doomstacks on all their coasts, level 10 forts on all provinces, beast of a navy and air force.
I am stretched enough with Japan and America. Might try and finally put an end to Norway

 

[Viden]

Maps please!

 

[oberstbrooksy]

 

[Attalus]

Are you at war with Sweden ?
Otherwise they know they are next

 

[oberstbrooksy]

Are you at war with Sweden ?
Otherwise they know they are next

No, Sweden has sat there not involved in this wild ride, the Norwegian invasion slowed down after a while and I'ave just left it at Narvik.

Sweden does have -200 relations with me, but probably know it would be suicide to start a war.

 

[Baron Jukaga]

OMG what are those doomstacks in Arabia?

 

[oberstbrooksy]

OMG what are those doomstacks in Arabia?

For some reason all of Europe decided the Arabs should command their military.