Actually no. WP forces effectively re-occupied Czechoslovakia
and Hungary using the same 'theoretical' doctrine and equipment,
and NATO wasn't able to do much about those operations.
You're confusing military capability with political will. NATO
didn't do much largely because the US sat on its hands for fear of
the Soviets going nuclear.
Kurt, I'm not confusing anything.
Political is that function of society that translates popular will of the demographic into action.
You mean the collective NATO leadership 'lacked balls', which I think is the technical term.
The execution of both operations was such that NATO wouldn't have been able to do much in any case.
Military capability comes in three mutually-dependent scopes, strategic, operational and tactical. The best tactical capability in the world, if strategically unusuable is so much scrap metal.
Why would anyone have thought that Soviets would 'go nuclear'?!
Since 1917 the Soviets were saying that their political goal is the liberation of the working people from the capitalists, not their irradiation for 300+ years