Other Cold Wars

I was just wondering about the ideas for other cold wars, cold wars not between communism and capitalism.

The only ones I got would be ones between capitalism, communism, and fascism or a cold war between imperialism and independence.

Any others?
 
communism vs communism
capitalism vs capitalism
various religious countries vs religious countries of different faith
 
communism vs communism
capitalism vs capitalism
various religious countries vs religious countries of different faith

The first two seem rather limiting.

Edit: And the third would might mean a several centuries old POD.
 
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Who says they have to be based on ideology?

If you get two or three really big and powerful superpowers who dislike each other a great deal then you could get a Cold War between those nations with the lesser powers and nations choosing sides based on who they were closest to geographically or ideologically or culturally.
 
Indeed , there is little to say that a "Cold War" has to be based on Ideology

If you look at the various colonial conflicts in the 19th century , there is great simularity to the cold war. The "Concert of Europe" and the century or so of relative peace between 1815 and 1914 was marked by a tense stand off and proxy wars around the world
 
Edit: And the third would might mean a several centuries old POD.

Something like "India doesn't gain independance as united country but rather splits into Hindu and Muslim states"? Or "Shi'ias gain power in one muslim country (bonus points if not Arab) and then have cold war with their sunni neighbours"?

you know those could be interesting TLs, if somebody would write them.....
 
What about a cold war between Chile and Australia over control of the Antarctic and it's ocean.

Now that would be a cold war.:p
 

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I'm working on this scenario as we speak.

My POD is 1968 with the shooting death of Ronald Reagan as he tries for the Republican nomination by members of the Charles Manson Family. In years ahead, the Soviet Union withdraws from Eastern Europe, but is able to reconstitute itself as the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republic's and continues to survive to present day. During the 1990's the new Soviet Union adopts a capitalist economy, much like China, and there is a feel good era between the USSR, China, EU, and US.

By the turn of the millennium the Soviet Union and China have had a series of rapproachments and are on increasingly friendly terms. North Korea gets foolish, attacks South Korea and is conquered by a US led coalition of nations. With NATO expanding in Europe, and the US expanding its influence into North Korea, both Russia and China feel the US is trying to encircle them, and prevent them from becoming great nations. By 2008, the Soviet Union has rebuilt its military, and has entered into an alliance with China and like minded nations called the League of Free Nations, which is opposed to the United States, European Union, and what they perceive as neo-Imperialism and encirclement.

The League of Free Nations consists of the USSR, China, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela (and others).

To counter this world wide alliance, NATO expands its mission and is renamed the Order of Democratic Nations. The US, EU, Australia, NZ, Canada, Mexico, Japan and ROK are all members of the ODN.

The Non-aligned Movement sees an increase in importance again, as many nations not wishing to be caught up in this second Cold War join the organization (and in some cases rejoin). Some nations such as India and South Africa are part of the NAM, but have a tendency to favor the ODN, while other nations such as Argentina and Iraq lend its support to the LOFN.
 
Who says they have to be based on ideology?

If you get two or three really big and powerful superpowers who dislike each other a great deal then you could get a Cold War between those nations with the lesser powers and nations choosing sides based on who they were closest to geographically or ideologically or culturally.

Europe and Americas just for shits and giggles?
 
In my Afrikaner TL, I've got a Cold War between the U.S. and its allies and a gigantic apartheidish regime (the Afrikaner Confederation, which controls most of Africa, southern Arabia, India, and the East Indies) and its allies.

The Afrikaners and their crew of rather illiberal states like a Sikh minority regime in OTL Pakistan, various Asian monarchies, Afghanistan, and Imperial Iran claim the US is bent on imposing its values on them. They call their version of the Warsaw Pact the Self-Determination Compact.

The US and company, however, see the Afrikaners as imperialists who grow increasingly theocratic as the 20th Century draws to a close and their regime grows increasingly unstable.

On a more general note, governments that feel threatened by American influence and "toxic" popular culture could form their own version of the Self-Determination Compact.

For some reason, I'm thinking Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and France, although Russia would probably be the big boy in the alliance due to its dislike of US "meddling" in its former "near abroad" and lots of nukes.
 
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