Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4843137-20140519231050/@comment-33689772-20180403020222

Oh, I wasn’t aware of this, but even if major cities survived (which would require some good luck) they wouldn’t have enough food or supplies to last long.

And also there are some things more important than security-Saguenay, Canada and Superior have transportation and infrastructure links and could pretty much reunify in to Canada any time they wanted to... if they wanted to. The thing is, they don’t. Considering how Mongolia and the Uyghurs both would resent Soviet authority it would probably take an invasion and Eastern Europe style repression to get them to join. And, unlike the Canadian example I just used, there aren’t even any major roads between Siberia and Mongolia/the Uyghurs.

Also, yes, Gansu is mostly poor and undeveloped. However, the Soviets are simply OUTNUMBERED, and it’s not like their remnants in Siberia are much richer or more developed. I’m not talking about a conventional war (which Siberia could easily win) but a long draining guerrilla conflict until Siberia withdraws from Manchuria... and they probably won’t.