AHC: Nato and Warsaw pact team up to curbstomp some country

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its called the USSURI RIVER WAR
and its a pretty good timeline....take a look at it..

Eh, its far too campy and unrealistic. The whole world uniting against Mao, except for everyone who will be viewed as evil over the next 50 years, all of whom get defeated by the Social Democratic US and Liberalizing USSR isn't going to happen.
 
They might share common interests, but each would launch their own operations. They might have an unofficial truce between them, but there wouldn't be any real cooperation or joint effort.

I wasn't thinking real cooperation more like co-belligerents who agree on a certain line on where to divide the country.
 
It is perhaps ironic that Kim Jong II, General Secretary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Communist Party and absolute ruler of that unhappy country, would lay the foundations for a kind of world peace not seen since 1945. That near future was not quite on the mind of Kim (or of any other major world leaders) on May 15, 1970; no, that day was reserved for the Declaration.

In a speech about as exciting as one might expect from a man of Kim's background and speaking ability, the Korean dictator announced that the DPRK had developed nuclear weapons. One particular nuclear weapon, in fact, the "Glorious People's Revolutionary Hammer." Built over several decades by Korea's top scientists (none of whom have survived the relevant purges of recent years), the GPRH is a fusion device with a magnitude of 250,000 megatons.

The General Secretary goes so far as to cackle malevolently at that; before continuing. His demands are simple. There are several million Koreans in Manchuria. Logically, then, Manchuria is part of the Korean national homeland; they deserve to live in free, liberated, democratic Korea. There are several million Koreans in South Japan; and they are forced to live under a dastardly imperialist puppet racist government. It's the least he can do to take Japan into the Korean national fold, to liberate every single one of the Japanese people.

If his demands are not granted by the 20th, well...the subsequent special effects demonstration is surprisingly competent for a nation without a native film industry. Suffice it to say that a quarter of a million megatons will leave quite the large hole, quite the large hole indeed. This applies, of course, if anyone should attempt to slay the Korean lion while they retake their national destiny.

The Soviet Union and the United States are the only major powers with a significant ICBM stockpile, they will lead the initial strike; followed rapidly by the Anglo-French contingent from local aircraft carriers; and to complete the soup, a dash of the People's Liberation Army.

There's no time to organize beyond the designation of targets; there's no time for Richard Harris' John Gould to go in and seduce someone's secretary. There is, however, always time for death, and for totalitarian states and somewhat unstable democracies to band together in its name.
 
ITL Kim Jong-Il took over in '94, in '70 he would have been 28, a bit young to be the great leader.

I'm p. sure that the US and Soviet navies escorted tankers during the Iran-Iraq war.
 
Iran, sometime in the 1980s. The Soviets were no happier about the fundamentalist regime than America, and Iran was right on their border. Perhaps if Iran was on the verge of defeating Iraq and moving into the Middle East. Both superpowers had allies in the region.
 
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo has the US and USSR both participating in a UN mission against an Islamic caliphate in Syria, if you're interested.
 
The main area I can see this happening is the Middle East. In say, 1982, someone (say Iran and Iraq) get a few nukes, and uses them on Israel (as a warning to the other). Israel is more or less trashed, as all her neighbors join in a generalized pile-on to 'kill the Zionest entity'.

The US diverts a relief force to hold the coast and prevent a genocide as the battered and leaderless Israeli Army is driven back. US journalists get into the some of the nuked areas, and yeah, it really is as bad as everyone said it would be. Both the US and Soviets are struck by the horror, and agree than An Example must be made so this never happens again.

Forget client states and proxy wars - This Will Not Stand. Both Iran and Iraq are to be disarmed and their governments replaced. The US reploys two armored corps from West Germany, and the British and French both add a division apeice. The Soviet Army smashes west from Afghanistan into Iran, while reality is explained to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Israel is held, and the Jordanians stand aside as the US Army flows through to Iraq.

Mike Turcotte
 
The main area I can see this happening is the Middle East. In say, 1982, someone (say Iran and Iraq) get a few nukes, and uses them on Israel (as a warning to the other). Israel is more or less trashed, as all her neighbors join in a generalized pile-on to 'kill the Zionest entity'.

The US diverts a relief force to hold the coast and prevent a genocide as the battered and leaderless Israeli Army is driven back. US journalists get into the some of the nuked areas, and yeah, it really is as bad as everyone said it would be. Both the US and Soviets are struck by the horror, and agree than An Example must be made so this never happens again.

Forget client states and proxy wars - This Will Not Stand. Both Iran and Iraq are to be disarmed and their governments replaced. The US reploys two armored corps from West Germany, and the British and French both add a division apeice. The Soviet Army smashes west from Afghanistan into Iran, while reality is explained to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Israel is held, and the Jordanians stand aside as the US Army flows through to Iraq.

Thing is, Israel has her own nukes by this point, and Iran and Iraq know it. Unless the leadership of one of those nations is actively suicidal, the result is MAD, not a nuclear attack on Israel.
 
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