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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
The Mongols were nomads, they followed their herds in their grazing lands. As they moved West, the only food storages were in the cities themselves.
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that is right. Batu Khan was quite wrong comming to Russia in winter time. But he was lucky that none of Russian regions supported his virst victims where he got enough supplies to stay by spring.
In general Russian army is in very bad shape. Only few divisions are operational and those are used in Caucasus, Tadjikistan and around Moscow. So if strategic nukes are disconsidered, Chinese have good pretty chance. The problem with Russia is that it has most of its millitary force concentrated in the European part and communications are too scarce and slow to bring enough force to the East. Just like during the times of Russian-Jappan war.... this is despite a recent maneurves when 800 troops were transported to Chinese border by plane with intention to prove Chinese that something can be deployed fast. So the only thing Russia can rely to disconsider Chinese threat is that nobody will start a full scale war with Russia which can wipe out any state using only few of its 18,000 nuclear warheads.....