Breaking News: Russian Military buildup at Belarus border with Poland. U.S patrolling heavy

Sure hope that's not yet another imbecile Russian plan to launch an invasion they can't support.

The correct order of actions is:

a) Dig in, making sure that most of your troops can survive initial exchange,

b) Start a (conventional initially, but virtually guaranteed to go nuclear within the first minute) war by launching devastating missile strikes against all U.S. targets/installations/command hubs in Poland, and

c) When, and only when the radioactive dust has settled, send those surviving troops into Poland to mop up any U.S. resistance that has managed to survive

d) Also keep, at all times, a keen eye on any and all NATO members that are fully under the CIA's control (like Baltic states and U.K.), and if you see any of them organizing retaliatory strikes, don't hesitate for even a second to hit them with strategic missile nukes, keeping your strategic bombers safely in the back until all anti-air defenses in Europe have been dealt with... meaning both NATO defenses and otherwise, because 99.999...% of European governments are under the CIA control, which means that their militaries are as well, and it won't matter one bit if they're in NATO or not. If they receive their marching orders from the CIA, and they have the capability, they're going to shoot down all of your planes.

Any deviation from this order will have a guaranteed effect of upwards of 90% of your ground forces being wiped out long before they ever get a chance to fire even a single bullet.

And even this (optimal) approach to tactical nuclear warfare is only a third best option.

In this particular (special) case, the undeniably best option is to obliterate U.S. embassy in Belgrade (wiping out CIA's ability to orchestrate events in Europe (see step d) again), consequently also crippling their ability to control the U.S. from within, thus making the second best option unnecessary), while the second best is to launch (obviously nuclear) first strike at U.S., with or without Chinese participation.

Looking forward to seeing which (if any) of the above options the Russian side is going to take.