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The PoD is not really important although I'm assuming saner economic policy on the part of Gosplan and reforms by an Alexei Kosygin that manages to get power instead of Brezjnev, leading to the USSR and the Warsaw pact surviving. Assuming that radical islam still takes root, what would a WoT analogue look like. I'm assuming the Soviet Union will still prop up the communist regime in Afghanistan, leading to organizations like Al Qaeda and the Taliban who will hate the USSR's guts, more so since it's an atheist state and my guess is that the Red Army will pull out of Afghanistan like the Americans pulled out of Vietnam. Al Qaeda and the Taliban probably won't like the US either because of their presence in the Middle East.

How will Muslim terrorism play out in this otherwise strictly bipolar world if it ever gets to rear its ugly head? Will old OBL focus on the Soviets or the Americans or neither, leaving him a regional player in Afghanistan and Pakistan and perhaps India? Could he pull a 9/11 ITTL?
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