Kreshchenie ognem. V'iuga v pustyne - Kalashnikov M.

... If the USSR and the Supreme would have dealt the same "oil blow" in 1987, would Saddam have taken over Kuwait in 1990?
Most likely, yes - if Moscow made it clear that it would not interfere. In the modeled version of the Cold War, America is engaged in its
internal problems and no longer thinking about the collapse of the USSR.
America is weakening and cannot fully control even the Middle East.
And so Saddam Hussein also had a chance to annex
Kuwait. And here the Russians had another tempting chance. Plunge
The United States grounded in the last great battle of the 20th century.
In the usual reality, the u.S. rulers were able to achieve
Saudi Arabia's requests for assistance, in a matter of months concentrating
on the peninsula, a powerful group, the Multinational Force Coalition,
where, in addition to the American, British and French forces
(not counting the others). Arabs could oppose the enemy
only 785,000 fighters, five-plus thousand old tanks
and no more than eight hundred not the newest aircraft. Against the Marine
coalition armadas they had only 13 boats. Only by the number of guns,
Iraq outnumbered the enemy: eight thousand barrels against
Four. But did it change the monstrous inequality of power,
why were the Iraqis doomed from the beginning?
In January-February of "our" 1991, the coalition inflicted a heavy
defeat, defeating the country after days of air-launched missile raids.
But it could have been different.
Let's try to simulate the war in the Gulf of 1991, but one where the USSR provided Iraq with the necessary and thoughtful assistance ...