Estava no turno dos EUA, então eles perderam. Já que o rebaixamento do DEFCON acontece quando o evento é jogado. A pontuação é que está vinculada a carta da ONU.
Bem foi isso que entendi.
FAQ
#49 Missile Envy & #50 We Will Bury You:
Q. We're at Defcon 2. The USSR plays Missile Envy and has got a +18 score. "We will bury you!" comes his way. What happens? If going by the sequence on the card, USSR auto-victory would occur first.
A. WE WILL BURY YOU has a condition on the implementation of the 3 VP's. The VP's are only earned after the US fails to play the UN INTERVENTION card. Now, MISSILE ENVY has to be his next play, but UN INTERVENTION may be played with another card, so it was still both theoretically, and practically possible. However, in either case, the nuclear war would occur first, because the DEFCON is degraded with the event, while the 3 VP's must await the US action round.