FBWI: Plausibility check: JFK dies and USSR dominates the world

[Mister Abbadon]

How plausible is Philip K. Dick's The child in the low valley, I know AH.com for the most part really doesn't like it but how plausible is it that if Oswald had succesfully killed Kennedy Under the leadership of Lydon Johnson we would have lost the third world war and the soviet union would control the world?
OOC This takes place in a TL where JFK wasn't assasinated and The united states and the Soviet Union had a conventional war, not a nuclear one
Kennedy liveing didn't result in the war Events had already been set in motion to start the war because of one wild butterfly someone was standing in a different place and took the Bullet for Kennedy But people don't exactly Know that because they haven't seen OTL

[RogueBeaver]

Uh, pretty much ASB. Johnson's concern about Sino-Soviet retaliation in 'Nam was a reason he micromanaged the air war IOTL.

[Dialga]

Another vote for "unrealistic" here. I doubt the Soviets could've won the Cold War without using nukes.

[theReturner]

Meh, America would still be America, with or without certain person leading it. It would take a really incompitent President to lead America to lose the Cold War. Possibly several really incompitent Presidents in a row.

[Mister Abbadon]

i Don't think people understood what I was trying to say here

[RogueBeaver]

Unnecessary necromancy aside, we understood what you were trying to say: that without JFK, there'd have been WWIII, which is BS. To be fair, Robert Kennedy says something similar in Thirteen Days: "Of the fourteen men around the Cabinet table, had any one of six of them been President, there'd have been nuclear war." He considered Lyndon Johnson one of them, and given the date of publication (late '67), his motives are hardly indecipherable.

[Mister Abbadon]

no thats not what I was trying to say at all, what I was implying was that Events were already set in motion, which butterflied but never mind this was a bad idea

[RogueBeaver]

Douglas: I agree. ;) Now if Mr Abbadon had asked WI Barry Goldwater becomes POTUS, which is also ASB...

[Mister Abbadon]

Please stop commenting

[Atreus]

Please stop commenting

I don't think that you can just tell somebody to stop commenting on a thread, especially if they haven't done anything to provoke it. You posted a thread, and that basically makes everything public (especially seeing that this is not a chat forum). And by making it public in this way, you give the other members off the forum a chance to weigh in.

[counterblitzkrieg]

Unrealistic

OOC: I think you meant DBWI, not FBWI as the thread title

[Mister Abbadon]

Unrealistic

OOC: I think you meant DBWI, not FBWI as the thread title
Yup that's it Don't know why I wrote FBWI