“President Donald Trump’s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and … in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the U.S. as opposed to 150 million, the nation could then emerge as the stronger side and prevail in its objectives.”
This guy is now Trump’s acting national security adviser … and you’re worried about Joe Biden’s gaffes? Read story here.
Using cold war math those numbers could have been loses with just conventional arms. Those numbers would be a win in strategic warfare. It is rare when nations actually sustain truly astounding losses in war as it takes unique conditions where nations fight to even 50% population loss. Still Paraguay and Uruguay managed to have a war with those kind of losses. someone won sort of. At least until the next soccer match.