What If: No neutral countries during cold war.

During the course of the cold war, there were many countries that chose not to side with either the USA-led western bloc or the Soviet-led eastern bloc, instead joining with what is known as the Non Aligned Movement(NAM), an organization for countries that did not formally sided with either blocs. Usually, both sides ignored these countries.

But what if the US and the USSR declared that there will be no neutral countries allowed, stating that "you're either with us, or against us". Any countries that tried to remain neutral would find their leaders secretly overthrown, or outright invaded.

How would this affect the cold war?
 
During the course of the cold war, there were many countries that chose not to side with either the USA-led western bloc or the Soviet-led eastern bloc, instead joining with what is known as the Non Aligned Movement(NAM), an organization for countries that did not formally sided with either blocs. Usually, both sides ignored these countries.

But what if the US and the USSR declared that there will be no neutral countries allowed, stating that "you're either with us, or against us". Any countries that tried to remain neutral would find their leaders secretly overthrown, or outright invaded.

How would this affect the cold war?

It'd take almost ASB-levels of ideology to force that level of "not neutral" on every single nation, including those who are the diplomatic exchange brokers (i.e. Switzerland). It's in their interests to have at least a few countries that are neutral/non-aligned both to spy on the other side and as a way to have diplomatic options.

That said, I think it's incredibly hard to not fall on one side or the other to some degree unless your country is both poor and strategically useless. What you'd probably see is some very weak allies in either direction who are nominally part of the respective bloc but aren't rigidly in line.
 
I doubt that strongly. It would need ASB interevention to enforce every nation ally with USA or USSR. Many are strategically and politically just too unimportant that they would need enforce choice a side.
 
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