I'm sorry but I honestly can only see Cuba and Afghanistan Joining maybe MongoliaOther possible memberstates:
(Outer) Mongolia
DPRK
Jugoslavia
Afghanistan
Cuba
Unless Tito dies it aint gonna happen with Yugoslavia.
North Korea Joining the Warsaw Pact is mostly ASB on account of them pretty much always being Isolationist sure they accepted help from both the PRC and USSR but still.
WarPac was founded as a response to NATO, specially FRG joining it.
Sure but what if *NATO is US+UK+Spain+Portugal+Italy+Turkey+ Greece+some Balkans countries 5 Chruchill got his wish and the anglo-saxon concentrated on the south of Europe, while the Red army was racing aling the North sea; the allies meet inside France.... and inside Bulgaria ).
*Warpac trigger is when the Spainsh and portuguese dictatorship are accepted in *NATO.
No. Jay did not specify anything at all... so basically all we've got is 'post-1900'.that's whole lot of PODs (or one very strong) so basically outside OP.
No. Jay did not specify anything at all... so basically all we've got is 'post-1900'.
Maybe it could expanded as a response to the growing network of US alliances beyond Western Europe. A more successful SEATO?
If the USSR perceives that it is being cornered it may look elsewhere for allies.
Perhaps a stronger, and lasting CENTO triggers a more militarised and lasting UAR? A CENTO without Iraq (excluded for some reason), forces Iraq and the UAR firmly into the Soviet Sphere.
I have always thought of the idea of more Warsaw Pact members. India and China have come to my mind as what-if members. Also Vietnam after the war. Any thoughts of other members?
India was nonaligned during the Cold War.
the problem with that is that it doesn't resolve the basic soviet weakness, no secure connection. WarPac was one thing, it was all linked together. UAR would be vulnerable. I mean SU couldn't intervene in 1973 (had it wanted to) because it had no way of getting troops to MidEast. Unless Iran goes Soviet SU can't do much for UAR.
I suppose that if the Soviets got a bit farther in Europe in WW2, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, all of Germany, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Italy could possibly be puppetized under Communist regimes. Hell, France, the Low Countries, and Iberia are all fair bait if we play it that way.