My main question is, how would he have handled the Iranian Missile Crisis in November '88 or the Berlin Incident in September '85? As far as I recall, the former actually ended up forcing the U.S. elections to be postponed for a couple of weeks(this was greatly controversial but it didn't harm Mondale's reputation except amongst conservatives.)? Both times, we came awfully close to WWIII, and it was bad enough that President Hart almost royally screwed up when Cuba fell apart in July, 1990(though Castro got back into power and ruled until '01).
Not to mention that I also wonder if maybe we'd have had two terms of President Perot as well.....and the disastrous Ron Paul term that came after that.
US forces were deeply involved in fighting along-side Saddam's regime (what a great idea
that turned out to be

) during the Iran-Iraq War.
Also Cuba didnt really fall apart Fidel
did however. it's still pretty murky how had suddenly fell into a coma, given the number of times the CIA tried to kill him. Still he rocovered enougth to re-assume power before the power-struggle between Raul and other would-be dictator's turned bloody.
@SuLiam: Uh.....we didn't invade Iran until 1998 and that was only after the Civil War began over there. And the Commies never came to power in West Germany(and certainly not all of Europe for that matter! Have you been listening to John Moore[1]?), though some on the right here in America would consider the Social Democrats as such, and they did rule for about 10 years.
Well to be fair the ''Popular-Front'' goverments
did have their fair share of Communists in them.
Also, I don't know which ASB TL you're referring to, but there are no Soviet orbital battle-stations despite the mad ramblings of the 'Mad Yankee', aka Daryl Bradford Smith[1], up there at RBS in Boston; the USSR collapsed in November 1990 and only Tajikistan and Siberia are Communist today.
The orbital battle stations were a bit of a madcap idea, the Russians put out there to cover the fact they were mounting nukes on
satellites.
The U.S.S.R is indeed a thing of the past however the
C.S.S.R is very much intact. After all 15 SSR's signed the new union treaty in 1992.
The lifting of Lenin's ban on factions in the Bolshevik Party & competitive elections multi-candidate produced some odd outcomes but out-and-out old school Communsts are in power in more than just Tajikistan and Siberia. I dont know where you get your info from.
Excuse me but Britain certainly never went communist, and the so called European Democratic Peoples Federation lasted less than 3 months. It was falling apart even before they attempted to takeover Scandanavia. Those were tense times the firs time since the WWII all Britains reserves were mobilised. I spent a year bored out of my mind patroling the borders of RAF Kinloss because of the aftershocks of that winter.
Still it paid for my time at University after I was demobed and made the Government start rebuilding the Armed Forces.
Oh come on, I just dont understand why everyone was so bothered about the fact that the EC renamed itself for a few weeks due to a power-play by several member states. Also take over Scandanavia WTF! Only
Sweden was a member state.