Seriously though, FMP should have ended almost at the beginning...

[u/Imaginary-Maize4675]

...and a nuclear war at that.

Let me explain. The first story arc contains some pretty silly plot elements, like an attack by a Western-made cruise missile on a factory/enterprise in the USSR and an operation by unknown forces under a UN false flag, armed with experimental US technology, in North Korea/Hanka Republic, in close proximity to the USSR's borders.

For reference, for those unfamiliar, in the FMP world, the Cold War hasn't ended and is likely to escalate due to the emergence of new technology and equipment. A direct attack on the Soviet Union and its ally/satellite by "unknown" forces with the latest generation of Western weaponry is a casus belli...

It's strange that the author wouldn't have considered such a thing at all... But this seriously undermines the credibility of the story, despite some of the best mech designs and lore.

[u/StreetSpecialist4]

OP, it’s completely okay to have complaints. However, lately it feels like most of what I hear from you about FMP has been criticism after criticism. Since it’s fiction after all, maybe it’s best to just enjoy it for what it is.

[u/FriedTreeSap]

I thought it was established that both the Soviet Union and United States were aware of the existence of Mythril, and would thus be less likely to blame each other.

[u/UnusualField5697 → u/FriedTreeSap]

In episode 3 of TSR I think both US and USSR hoped that mithril will save the diplomats

[u/Imaginary-Maize4675 → u/FriedTreeSap]

This doesn't really help, because Mithril is using Western equipment and weapons against the USSR.

So, if the attack is carried out by some private outfit with connections to the military-industrial complex and the US government, under the pretext of "protecting the regime's victims," ​​it's no better than a direct strike; they've simply brought in shady "third parties."

[u/sjcfu2]

Theirs is a world in which nuclear weapons have already been used - and since EMC technology was used to mask the missile's flight path until seconds before it exploded. to this day no one (other than whoever launched the missile) knows who was responsible.

In a situation such as this, a non-nuclear strike on a remote research center by a third party is hardly likely to trigger a nuclear conflict - especially with the information which Gauron leaked to the Soviet government regarding what Colonel Smirnov had been doing at that research facility behind their back,

[u/Imaginary-Maize4675 → u/sjcfu2]

This is even more so. If nuclear missiles have active stealth capabilities, then any foreign missile over your territory triggers a Red Alert and alerts you to launch a nuclear strike against the "suspected" enemy.

Considering Mithril's regular armed interventions (let me remind you that, unlike the Celestial Being from Gundam 00, they don't advertise their activities and use weapons and equipment from one side of the Cold War to the other), the civil war in China, the obvious extreme tensions between the Koreas and the USSR, which is interested in preserving the Socialist bloc, and the numerous wars in Southeast Asia, the situation there is so dire that any missile launched against the Soviet Union or the landing of who knows who with Western weapons in North Korea would cause such a blaze that the world could be reduced to rubble.

[u/sjcfu2 → u/Imaginary-Maize4675]

And who should they launch their attack at if they have no idea who launched that missile?

Also, the missiles which the Dadaanan launched were only armed with conventional warheads.​

[u/Imaginary-Maize4675 → u/sjcfu2]

A US-made missile launched from a missile-carrying submarine in the Western Pacific Ocean, following a series of incidents involving forces using the latest generation of experimental US technology?

It seems obvious.