Seems like rather foolish games: once it's clear Doomsday is here and the nukes are flying, the two which are fighting are quite likely to use 10% or so of their arsenals to make sure the third won't survive to "dance on their graves."
Bruce
Which Three-Way Cold War scenario is more interesting?
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Seems like rather foolish games: once it's clear Doomsday is here and the nukes are flying, the two which are fighting are quite likely to use 10% or so of their arsenals to make sure the third won't survive to "dance on their graves."
Bruce
One might instead argue that a 3-way cold war leads to greater stability, in that a Power is less likely to start a war when it has to be sure of taking out _both_ opponents. (Anyway, I find a 3-way cold war unlikely: as in WWII, the two who find eachother the least threatening are likely to gang up against the third...)
Bruce
Bruce
ok ill give you the real names.....
The People's Republic of China
The Japanese Empire
The Greater German Reich
The United States of America
The British Empire
The Islamic Republic of India
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Given that India is only about 11% Muslim, the Islamic Republic of India seems to require a rather early POD...and a seven-sided cold war than a world with 7 major powers would seem to require universal mutual hostility. What's the British Empire's beef with the US, or the Japanese empire's with the Reich? (And British S. Korea ?
)Hmm.
US and allies
Fascist great power (Reich or Japan or China...)
Soviet Union/communist block
Some sort of radical Islamic major power
Third-world alliance: possibly lefty, but anti-Soviet (Europeans, and anyway "colonists" in Central Asia/Caucasus): possibly Chinese and/or Indian led.
Technocratic dictatorship (not racist, but anti-religion, anti-religion, and undemocratic: loathe Soviets for their "perversion" of Science). France? Germany? The UK? Japan?
Any other ideologies unlikely to get along with none of the former?
Bruce
The Nazis push the Ruskies into Siberia, where they form a Far East commie bloc with the Chinese, helping speed up/boost Chinese development?
NATO (by which we mean the US/Canada/UK/underground-movements-in-Europe/European-governments-in-exile) vs. the Reich vs. the Far East Communists.
Or...
I read somewhere about post-WWII stay behind programs and their retooling to being safeguards against communism. There was also a bit about the British military stay behind conspiracy that had been formed in case the Nazis successfully invaded having plans to execute a coup if the lefties got in control of Parliament right after WWII. This and greater communist insurgencies in European countries (with UK supported right wing reactions putting them down) could eventually lead to a neo-nationalistic Europe and the US after much looking the other way finally realizing it doesn't feel comfortable standing with them, even against the goddless communists, anymore. Thus leading to a three-way situation.
In a "Cold War never ends" future history scenario that sort of Fortress Europe as a third faction thing could also happen as the fallout of an extended Cold War if the Soviets got to be a resurgent economic power.
In one 80's cyberpunk short story this political bloc is referred to as the Second Army, a sort of military reactionist supragovernment.
NATO (by which we mean the US/Canada/UK/underground-movements-in-Europe/European-governments-in-exile) vs. the Reich vs. the Far East Communists.
Or...
I read somewhere about post-WWII stay behind programs and their retooling to being safeguards against communism. There was also a bit about the British military stay behind conspiracy that had been formed in case the Nazis successfully invaded having plans to execute a coup if the lefties got in control of Parliament right after WWII. This and greater communist insurgencies in European countries (with UK supported right wing reactions putting them down) could eventually lead to a neo-nationalistic Europe and the US after much looking the other way finally realizing it doesn't feel comfortable standing with them, even against the goddless communists, anymore. Thus leading to a three-way situation.
In a "Cold War never ends" future history scenario that sort of Fortress Europe as a third faction thing could also happen as the fallout of an extended Cold War if the Soviets got to be a resurgent economic power.
In one 80's cyberpunk short story this political bloc is referred to as the Second Army, a sort of military reactionist supragovernment.
Given that India is only about 11% Muslim, the Islamic Republic of India seems to require a rather early POD...and a seven-sided cold war than a world with 7 major powers would seem to require universal mutual hostility. What's the British Empire's beef with the US, or the Japanese empire's with the Reich? (And British S. Korea ?
Hmm.
US and allies
Fascist great power (Reich or Japan or China...)
Soviet Union/communist block
Some sort of radical Islamic major power
Third-world alliance: possibly lefty, but anti-Soviet (Europeans, and anyway "colonists" in Central Asia/Caucasus): possibly Chinese and/or Indian led.
Technocratic dictatorship (not racist, but anti-religion, anti-religion, and undemocratic: loathe Soviets for their "perversion" of Science). France? Germany? The UK? Japan?
Any other ideologies unlikely to get along with none of the former?
Bruce
Good question...if youve seen the map then look in that thread for some of my other posts... ok the Islamic Republic of India in this tl owns pakistan,so islam spreads and all of the high rankiong officails belive in islam....the Brithish beef wit the us is that the us never entered on their side so they couldint invade western europe too far so they feel betrayed... and the british south korea is that since the japenese were tied up with the u.s until they won midway so the britsh and theyre colinies like australia and new zealand rushed for the rest of asia expecially hong kong so after the soviets invaded mancuria and north korea they did the same with the south with the japanese pulled back...any more questions..
I find the dark green power to be an unlikely grouping but I think it's pretty cool. Sort of an everybody left over sort of grouping. Japan by itself or even Japan and Brazil would be too weak. Pakistan and the other Islamic countries would be too weak. Add them together and you have a pretty strong alliance.