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So, basically, our objective here is to create a situation similar to the cold war, but reversed, with a democratic Russia facing off against a totalitarian United States.

You might've seen these threads before. However, here's a bit of a twist on it: so long as Russia is democratic and the United States is totalitarian, you can make the ideologies be whatever you want. You can have a constitutional monarchist Russia facing down a fascist USA or a syndicalist/liberterian socialist psuedo-USSR facing down a dismal American corporatocracy in a world where the business coup occurred. All that is required is that Russia is a beacon of liberty and free thought, and America is an oppressive dictatorship under the jackboot of totalitarianism.

Now, let the scenarios flow!
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