DBWI: Keep Soviet-American Relationship Friendly

As you know, starting with the policies of President Reagan and General Secretary Romanov in the late 80s and continuing to the mid-2000s, the United States and the Soviet Union (as well as their respective allies) agreed to put aside their Cold War differences and focus on peaceful coexistence and cooperation. We accomplished such great feats during that time, such as the joint moon landings, the partition of Yugoslavia, and negotiating an end to the devastating Kargil War. We even fought as allies against the scourge of Islamic terrorism after the horrific events of 8/20.

Of course, it goes without saying that things eventually went to hell around the time the Arab Spring turned the Middle East into a battlefield. Now here we are, less than a year after the Three Month War reduced the Levant to ashes and brought NATO and the Warsaw Pact to the brink of a nuclear exchange before the emergency ceasefire was declared. Even now, US-USSR relations are at an all-time low, and everyone I know is afraid a nuclear war could start at the drop of a hat.

So, in an effort to keep my mind off what could be our ultimate destruction, what I ask you is: what is the latest PoD that would keep Soviet-American relations at the friendly levels of the 1990s? I assume that you would somehow have to avoid Zyuganov's rise to power, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that without going ASB.

(OOC: This is actually a somewhat modified and highly condensed version of a TL I am considering using for a personal project. Also, am I doing this right?)
 
Maybe butterfly away the creation of EuroFed in the 70s? Three major powers to deal with, four if you think China counts as one now, makes the US and USSR need to work together against the upstarts, so to speak. Keep Western Europe under NATO, or basically the US, and you have a much stronger US that would leave the USSR more concerned.
 
have President Jeb Bush go to moscow instead of china in 2000. He and his advisors left Moscow hang out to dry over Chechnya and the ford motor plant bombing in Volgograd.

what was Moscow supposed to do when the rebels used gas on the plant and the metro! and yet we decided to take our business elsewhere after they invaded Afghanistan and Pakistan to destroy the terrorists.

instead we tried to break the ice with the Chinese and play them off the soviets, you had to read the wiki leaks memos that were leaked that has strained relations so badly.
 
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