I tell you right now if the USSR fell fiction would suck. seriously, how many books, movies, and games have Russians as bad guys or even the new kids on the block the French I mean EU and the Chineese. I mean games like Call of Duty Black Ops would have had even worse writing if we weren't behind Soviet lines making it look like a Chinese op. really who would be the bad guys in fiction with out the Soviets. Israel? Brazil? Canadian?
But what scares me right now is the Argentine-Chile Cold war. I doubt they would have the guts to do that if the Pacific Alliance was able to focus more on south America. What's tough about it they are booth anti-Soviet, PRC but they clearly are not fans of their North American neighbors. Add their fascist i mean "republican dictatorship" if one of them wins and absobs the other one it could be WWII again with them wanting places like Paraguay and Peru, and I have no idea who will side with who. Russians siding with the US to stop them? or the Russians and EU backing the aggressors to gain an new ally in the western hemisphere? scary stuff that threatens nuclear war either way