AHC: Wars based on Black-Grey-White "Morality" of the Opposing Sides

It always been said everywhere that the WWI was "Grey vs. Grey", while the WWII was still, err, debated whether it was "Black vs. White" or "Black vs. Grey".

So, by using Black-Grey-White "system of morality", there are total six types of wars:
- White vs. White
- Grey vs. White
- Black vs. White
- Grey vs. Grey
- Black vs. Grey
- Black vs. Black

Now, in OTL nearly every wars are either "Grey vs. Black" or "Grey vs. Grey".
The challenge is, to create ATL wars of other "types" (like "White vs. Grey" or "White vs. White").
 

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Too much depends on a person's POV to get a universally agreed upon "war of morals". One man's terrorist is another man's hero and all that. I suppose that if you have one side kill all of another side's supporters and followers, the victor can write the history and say they were "white" and the enemies they wiped out were "black".
 
I don't think that White vs. White would be very likely -- in the nomenclature system you're using (and which I usually dislike but I'll use it in this thread too for the sake of convenience) it sounds like White would be more moved to go to war with Black than with White or even Grey. It's not the type of alignment to go to war except to stop defenitely hurtful alignments.

The realistic side of me is also not sure that in politics any states could fall under the "White" alignment. They're Grey at best. There's always a degree of damage that is inflicted by wars and even if we're considering that White would be the type who would be willing to sacrifice a few for the greater good, they would likely need to forge alliances with Grey, scheme, plot, etc. It seems like a White morality could only ever be used as a misnomer when the opposing side is so terrible (e.g. WWII) that the alternative sounds fantastic in comparison.
 
How about Hitler's invasion of Stalinist Russia as a black v. black ?
Still not good enough. Maybe something like Nazi Germany vs. Fascist Russia who think that Slavs are superior than Aryans, and Aryan people should be exterminated?
 
Still not good enough. Maybe something like Nazi Germany vs. Fascist Russia who think that Slavs are superior than Aryans, and Aryan people should be exterminated?
German invasion of Soviet Union: Black vs grey.

Soviet invasion of Nazi Europe: Black vs black.
 
But still Black. Evil VS Evil(er), TV Tropes.

To say they where Grey is a bit a kind of revisionism. Stalinism was an ugly totalitarism.

If anyone can use "good guys" without "by comparison to the Nazis" for the Western Allies, I can certainly call the USSR dark gray.

Ugly totalitarism and fundamentally and intentionally evil are not the same thing.
 
But still Black. Evil VS Evil(er), TV Tropes.

To say they where Grey is a bit a kind of revisionism. Stalinism was an ugly totalitarism.
It's really not the same kind of evil as Nazism. And most studies of Marxism-Leninism and Stalinism miss that for a facile comparison. The public character of the regimes were totally different, and that's evidenced by the tremendous problem the Communist Party had with dissident Communists.

There's no real equivalent in Nazi Germany. Out side of a tiny number of Strasser's loyalists, there weren't dissident Nazis. This is because the Nazis were pretty much card-carrying bad guys who publicly announced they planned to do bad things; lo and behold they did them.

Stalinists, on the other hand, tried as much as humanly possible to mask the brutality of the regime behind a facade of "Soviet democracy". Outside of a few notables, the purges were kept as secret as possible, and the regime spent considerable resources erasing problematic people from history and consciousness.
 
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