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Say that WWIII breaks out at some point in the early 1980s and manages to stay mostly conventional. Bare minimum, you're going to see the United States, United Kingdom, and the rest of NATO on one side and the USSR and the rest of the Warsaw Pact on the other, with fighting in Central Europe. But where else might major fighting take place, and who else would join each side?

In Europe, Yugoslavia is officially non-aligned. Would they stay neutral, or would they likely be sucked into the conflict - and on whose side?

China would be another potentially big player. The Sino-Soviet split had long since occurred by this point, but would they actively join the Americans in fighting the Soviets? And so long as we're discussing East Asia, what about Korea? Could there be renewed fighting there?

The Middle East? The Iran-Iraq War was happening at this time - would it be absorbed into the larger conflict?

Any significant fighting in South Asia?

Anywhere else to be noted?
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