I mean, in this case, Rummy's not completely wrong - America has plenty of options for Grenada beside invading or bombing, and RFK doesn't seem to want any of them.
Blue Skies in Camelot (Continued): An Alternate 80s and Beyond
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But it still would've been against international law and who knows how NATO would've reacted.
Do NATO and the UN not care about an assassination and coup of a democratically-elected government? At least sanction them.
A one-party Marxist-Leninist government that banned other political parties, formed after topling a previous corrupt authoritarian government, is considered democratically elected?
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Thank you all for the kind words and feedback. 
I'm glad you all enjoyed the chapter!
I'm glad you all enjoyed the chapter! Apologies for not making this clear in the chapter. RFK's administration will absolutely sanction the Hell out of the new regime.
Yay no invasion of Grenada and Gorbachev becoming Soviet leader earlier than OTL are both fantastic signs. Also an earlier Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is 100% better than the long drawn out conflict of OTL. Peace seems in the air everyone 😄😃✌
Cuba 2.0 incoming?Thank you all for the kind words and feedback.
Apologies for not making this clear in the chapter. RFK's administration will absolutely sanction the Hell out of the new regime.
Gorbi's finally in power. Good for him.
The real work starts now.
The first order of business would be power consolidation; my preferred method is to ship the entire Politburo off to retirement and replace them with younger, more "suitable" people. You can't lead a country if its top decision-makers are dropping dead like dominoes. (Seriously, nobody in the Politburo until the very end was even born in the Soviet Union, it was still the Russian Empire.)
Another point is that Glasnost and Perestroika CANNOT be implemented simultaneously.
Perestroika first. It stops the people from complaining about their basic needs and then gradually introducing democracy into the system.
That is to say, if TTL's Chernobyl happens, cover it up.
Gorbi rushing his reforms made the Union collapse (some people I know think he was a CIA agent). The experiment with democracy in the early '90s was during one of the worst possible times in that part of the world, and it led to ordinary Russians associating democracy with anarchy. This is partly why Putin rose to power and is still popular in many parts of Russian society.
The real work starts now.
The first order of business would be power consolidation; my preferred method is to ship the entire Politburo off to retirement and replace them with younger, more "suitable" people. You can't lead a country if its top decision-makers are dropping dead like dominoes. (Seriously, nobody in the Politburo until the very end was even born in the Soviet Union, it was still the Russian Empire.)
Another point is that Glasnost and Perestroika CANNOT be implemented simultaneously.
Perestroika first. It stops the people from complaining about their basic needs and then gradually introducing democracy into the system.
That is to say, if TTL's Chernobyl happens, cover it up.
Gorbi rushing his reforms made the Union collapse (some people I know think he was a CIA agent). The experiment with democracy in the early '90s was during one of the worst possible times in that part of the world, and it led to ordinary Russians associating democracy with anarchy. This is partly why Putin rose to power and is still popular in many parts of Russian society.
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At least Able Archer won't happen ITTL. Or it still takes place, but Gorby doesn't nearly start World War 3.
They did try to cover up or at the very least, downplay the Chernobyl disaster in OTL. Problem was just that it is very difficult to cover up a massive nuclear disaster when the radioactive particles are carried away to Scandinavia where they set off radiation alarms of the local nuclear power stations.
The Soviet government admitted that the accident had happened only after the Swedish authorities suggested that they were going to issue an alert with the IAEA.
I'm sure that many people have their own opinions, their own two cents to give, as to the causes of the Soviet collapse and I count myself among them. My personal opinion is that the Gorbachev didn't cause the collapse, but merely accelerated it by some years. The basic faults were already there.
For one, much of Soviet Union's economy depended on the continued growth and profitability of its energy sector. 67 percent of the Soviet exports to OECD countries were in oil and natural gas in 1980. Problem was however that the growth, which had been tremendous in the 1970s (Soviet oil production in West Siberia rose from 1 million tonnes in 1970 to 370 million tonnes in 1983), was unsustainable. The largest oil field in West Siberia, the Samotlor field, started its production in 1969 and peaked in 1980.
The profitability of this industry too was in a precarious state. Already in the 1970s the costs of the oil production had grown steadily, but these had been covered first by the tremendous growth of the Soviet oil industry and later with price hikes of the two oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. However, as a large portion of the Soviet oil production had to be reserved for export to the countries of the Eastern Bloc, any decline in production numbers or in oil prices would have serious effect on Soviet imports. And unfortunately for Gorbachev, as he rose to the position of General Secretary and got used to the job, the global oil markets were swamped by a sea of crude and the global price of the most valuable Soviet export was more than halved in 1986.
There were enough radioactive particles in Sweden that the Swedish government assumed there was an accident at one of their own plants - my dad was in the Swedish Army at the time and it was his brigade that was about to be deployed to one of the nuke plants to potentially help with cleanup ops when r the Soviets admitted it was Chernobyl
Don't run that particular test, or better yet run it when it should have been done (at construction) rather than a decade later. The reactor design is fundamentally not safe but much like the Space Shuttle the disaster needs a certain level of human screw up to actually set it off and that probably can be avoided with a little thought.
I wonder if there’s gonna be a second term curse for Bobby (if he’s reelected) which lead to the Republicans taking back Congress in 1986 and the White House in 1988