Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
USA and Russia like to use proxies to fight. Fighting it out with no intermediaries is so 1940's.
Proxies were a reasonable choice for both. USA casualty tolerance has always been lower than many, and the USSR lost 1/8 of its population between 1938 and 1946. I've heard some argue that the Russian population has still not truly recovered from that culling.