Cold War never ends: equivalent to the 2003 Iraq War?

Lets say that the Cold War didn't end , Germany never reunificates and the Warsaw Pact is still strong. Do you think that an equivalent of the 2003 Iraq War is possible. If it is, which could be te country invaded by the US of A?
 
Lets say that the Cold War didn't end , Germany never reunificates and the Warsaw Pact is still strong. Do you think that an equivalent of the 2003 Iraq War is possible. If it is, which could be te country invaded by the US of A?
The rise of Islamofascism may have been a unifying cause bringing NATO and Warsaw Pact together.

Imagine, it's Sept 2001, Muslims have just attacked the WTC. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is presumably still fighting the Mujahideen (Taliban) in Afghanistan. The USA and USSR may pick up their red phones and discuss the common enemy that is militant islam.

Going back to the original topic above, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 the Cold War was still on. The USSR did not intervene.
 
Just a thought, have Britain collapse like Yugoslavia, with the English as Serbs, Welsh as Albanians and Scottish and Northern Irish as Croats.
 
Going back to the original topic above, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 the Cold War was still on. The USSR did not intervene.
In the 90's the USSR was not in a position to intervene. It was on the verge of collapse.
Also, what I meant to ask in the post is that if a situation like the Iraq invasion of 2003 (that for a lot of people was innecesary) could had happen if the Cold War was still ongoing up to this date, and if it could, what country could be targeted (not necessarily Iraq).
Also I think that the 9/11 probably could not happened at all, because the radical islamist probably would still see the Soviet Union as the Great Satan.
Ah, and sorry if there are any misspellings, english is not my native language.
 
Also I think that the 9/11 probably could not happened at all, because the radical islamist probably would still see the Soviet Union as the Great Satan.
Ah, and sorry if there are any misspellings, english is not my native language.



You are aware that the 9/11 attack was the second
one? The first one in the 90s failed to bring down the buildings.

Relax. Your spelling is no worse than many posters.
 
There should be leastly 60's POD that you can get surviving USSR and WarPac. So no Afghanistan War, probably not even Islamic Revolution in Iran. Nor rising of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. And so no 9/11. World would be totally different.

Just a thought, have Britain collapse like Yugoslavia, with the English as Serbs, Welsh as Albanians and Scottish and Northern Irish as Croats.

I don't see this being plausible. In fact this seems very ASB. There not be such problems as with Yugoslavia.
 
To save the SU, don't you have to do away with Brezhnev? Isn't he the one who killed their economy? Throwing stupid foreign proxy wars and such? If you don't have the overthrow in Afghanistan in '73 then the SU does not invade (maybe). Saddam was not playing the whole allah thing. He did not want the Shia to rise up and well do what they did.

If you ever want to read an excellent book on the rise of modern Islamic terror a book called "the rising tower".

I would think you have a Bin Laden hate the US. As others point out, when the Iraqi army decided to reclaim the 19th province in 1990. The SU did nothing when we put 500k troops near their border. The Russians knew we would fight a real war over the Persian Gulf. Bin Laden's problem with America was we were in Saudi Arabia. So he tried to drop the towers in '93. But too many butterflies no Afghanistan = no Bin Laden?

Also, IMHO radical Islam was going to break out some where and if not for leaders like Gammel, Sadat , and Mubarak effictive, if not so nice I suspect it would it would have been Eygpt. Which would have been very scary. So even if the SU and the US become best pals you still get what you have OTL but maybe worse. Another war in Isreal. A worse PLO,a Saudi Arabia without the Saudi part and if possible a caliphate declared.
 
To save the SU, don't you have to do away with Brezhnev? Isn't he the one who killed their economy? Throwing stupid foreign proxy wars and such? If you don't have the overthrow in Afghanistan in '73 then the SU does not invade (maybe). Saddam was not playing the whole allah thing. He did not want the Shia to rise up and well do what they did.

If you ever want to read an excellent book on the rise of modern Islamic terror a book called "the rising tower".

I would think you have a Bin Laden hate the US. As others point out, when the Iraqi army decided to reclaim the 19th province in 1990. The SU did nothing when we put 500k troops near their border. The Russians knew we would fight a real war over the Persian Gulf. Bin Laden's problem with America was we were in Saudi Arabia. So he tried to drop the towers in '93. But too many butterflies no Afghanistan = no Bin Laden?

Also, IMHO radical Islam was going to break out some where and if not for leaders like Gammel, Sadat , and Mubarak effictive, if not so nice I suspect it would it would have been Eygpt. Which would have been very scary. So even if the SU and the US become best pals you still get what you have OTL but maybe worse. Another war in Isreal. A worse PLO,a Saudi Arabia without the Saudi part and if possible a caliphate declared.
 
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