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WarGames had some pretty farfetched strategies in its final scenes. I'm attempting to enumerate them here. I'm rather surprised that none of these ended with a winner. I'd like to think that we could handle any domestic issues in Greenland without a full-blown thermonuclear exchange, but I suppose it ''was'' the 80s. | WarGames had some pretty farfetched strategies in its final scenes. I'm attempting to enumerate them here. I'm rather surprised that none of these ended with a winner. I'd like to think that we could handle any domestic issues in Greenland without a full-blown thermonuclear exchange, but I suppose it ''was'' the 80s. | ||
[[ | [[File:Greenland_maximum.png|thumb|right|We can be thankful that we came no closer to a Greenland Maximum]] | ||
I went ahead and did the frame-by-frame analysis so you wouldn't have to: | |||
https://nick-black.com/images/wargames_strategies/ | |||
* US First Strike | * US First Strike | ||
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* NATO / Warsaw Pact | * NATO / Warsaw Pact | ||
* Far East Strategy | * Far East Strategy | ||
* US/USSR | * US/USSR Escalation | ||
* India-Pakistan War | * India-Pakistan War | ||
* Mediterranean War | * Mediterranean War | ||