Need help with an alternate cold war

I think it belongs in Pre-1900 because it has a Pre-1900 POD.

So in a timeline I am planning There are two secret societies that are sort of frenemies. They both acknowledge that a cold war will help them achieve their goals, but one is more left and one is more right, so they are on opposite sides.

The left one is based in a slightly socialist US and the right one is based in a larger* Egypt that has a very free market and a democratic government based on an ATL Muslim philosophy**.

*for reference

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** The Shurate, a representative democracy where representatives have more power over issues that they represent, and act more like Justices on many cases.

What I really need help with is figuring out how the secret societies convince the world that these two nations have reason to be icy to each other.

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