Extreme AHC/WI: Soviet troops in Jamaica in 2016

The challenge is, if you accept, to have Soviet troops deployed in Jamaica in 2016, with a PoD after 1979. The Cold War must have not ended and the Warsaw Pact must have not fallen. Also, if such an scenario happen, what would be the reaction of USA?

Soviet troops as part of an UN Mission are not valid. It must be troops deployed by the USSR/Warsaw Pact, and the Jamaican government must have allowed it.
 
The challenge is, if you accept, to have Soviet troops deployed in Jamaica in 2016, with a PoD after 1979. The Cold War must have not ended and the Warsaw Pact must have not fallen. Also, if such an scenario happen, what would be the reaction of USA?

Soviet troops as part of an UN Mission are not valid. It must be troops deployed by the USSR/Warsaw Pact, and the Jamaican government must have allowed it.

I can't fathom any rhyme or reason any Soviet leader would waist the money (and if were talking 2016 USSR, we can assume it would be in very short supply) to deploy the Red Army to Jamaica.

But Maybe...
Let's say the rise of Islamic extremism strikes like OTL with a 9/11 equivalent happening in the US.
America sends NATO to Afghanistan and then again like OTL attacks Iraq.

While this happens, Salafists rise in Trinidad, and Jamaica (this is actually happening right now)
Over stretched in the middle east, the US says no to the Jamaican PMs request for troops as does the UN, to combat local terrorism.
Thus, they reach out to a still surving Moscow Politburo for assistance. But that's the only way I could see it happening.
 

Archibald

Banned
Easy ! Let me try. At the height of counterculture in the 60's, a Soviet head of KGB notice that America hippies are smoking a lot of weed, and that weed fumes may undermine the military strength and will of fighting. So they decide to invade Jamaica to control the world supply of weed. USSR win the Cold War and, as of 2016, Jamaica remain a propserous client state of them.
 
Easy ! Let me try. At the height of counterculture in the 60's, a Soviet head of KGB notice that America hippies are smoking a lot of weed, and that weed fumes may undermine the military strength and will of fighting. So they decide to invade Jamaica to control the world supply of weed. USSR win the Cold War and, as of 2016, Jamaica remain a propserous client state of them.
LOL! The most realistic scenario we will get. The fact is the US would go ballistic over Soviet troops in Jamaica and the Soviets knew it. The USSR would not risk starting WWIII over Jamaica!
 

Wallet

Banned
Jamaica finds massive oil reserves with practically everything under the island and it's coats is gas.

The Soviet Union makes reforms in the 60s and goes like China OTL. They start using their oil reserves at the same pace as the US

George Bush dies and Cheney becomes president. He invaded Syria, Iran, Libya, and Pakistan. He is also massively deregulates walls tweet

The US goes bankrupt and into a depression. Civil war starts. The soviets move into Jamica to protect the oil reserves
 

CalBear

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June 9, 2016.

"Today the final 200 Soviet prisoners of war, who had fought repatriation for decades, left the Jamaican PoW Camp where they have lived since the end of the 1989 Collapse Conflict. These men had fought being returned to the wreckage of what was once the Soviet Union, with their case finally being decided as the final business of the Bonn Tribunal.

The breakthrough finally came when American Pres-"
 
ATL where communism sweeps all of Europe, including Britain. The Europeans fight to maintain their colonies, and have success in smaller places like the Caribbean. The Communist UK asks for Soviet assistance in 2016 when some civil disruption crops up in Jamaica, and...just noticed that post-1979 thing. Darn. Otherwise, this would be golden.

Wait, wait. This can still work. Delayed Rumsfeldia drives Europe into Moscow's arms, US retreats in on itself, fast forward...yeah, I got nothing.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Following a Soviet survives and reforms scenario, a hurricane passed over Jamaica in 2016, and Soviet Troops, based out of Cuba, lead a mission to the island to help with aid work, the Jamaican Government accepting of their support when America shrugs. Cuba and the USSR ise their position to also try and sway the Government into their sphere of influence. America takes it badly and we witness the Missile Crisis 2: Electric Boogalo.
 
IIRC, the communists had a presence in Jamaica that had been beaten back around 1980 or so. It wouldnt have taken much for them to go the way of Nicaragua, particularly if its pre Reagan and the shadow of Vietnam still loomed large - to work with the OP it would have to be 1980, before the election. After that, the distinction between Soviet advisors and Soviet troops is borderline semantics. Keeping the Soviet Union and WP alive is a whole nother topic, one often discussed on its own merits.
 
the problem is,any soviet government that could hold the country together till 2016 is not one that would base its military on the other side of the world
 
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