[kg64v_Silent Strika]

I would push the Israeli conflict up two years, and have NATO deny involvment in the crisis. After winning the war, but taking heavy casualties, the Israelis launch a raid against a base in the middle-east where US nukes are being stored, detonating them. The Red Army kills off Stalin, but the Soviet Union is split over who should take over. The Red Army wins at Stalingrad, but are crushed at Smolensk and Kursk. The forces that were intended for Belgorod are diverted to Stalingrad, which they find in a civil war. They aid the RDR (Russian Democratic Revolution) and trap the Reds in southern half of the city. The Reds surrender, but the RDR turns on their NATO allies, push them out of the city. Stalingrad is nuked, and Russia splits into several smaller nations.