There are still Russian boots on the ground - the Kremlin doesn't want to lose her satellites.
Worst case is that fighting spills over to West Berlin and London overreacts, war occurs. How soon the Force de Frappe and Polaris are deployed depends, but my money's on a Soviet conventional victory with a limited nuclear war - Russian troops on the Rhine, the French break out the Instasun (tm) and are bombed to shit whilst London and Washington stab Paris in the back with a two-foot machete and walk away whistling. The West Germans and Austrians are fucked over whilst Britain becomes very Tory and very, very, very hawkish. Powell as Maggie on steroids with a pint of gin takes power - the "voluntary" reparations likely are blocked by his party but he is still rather racist, even by the standards of his time. Civil war in SA likely happens and the world becomes very crapsacky.
Sorry, I was seeing how dystopic I could get it from that POD. In seriousness, Soviet Russia just becomes more repressive and Gorbachev never comes to power, meaning that Russia implodes in the late 90s.Is this a deliberate troll? I'm genuinely curious.
Is this a deliberate troll? I'm genuinely curious.
There are still Russian boots on the ground - the Kremlin doesn't want to lose her satellites.
Worst case is that fighting spills over to West Berlin and London overreacts, war occurs. How soon the Force de Frappe and Polaris are deployed depends, but my money's on a Soviet conventional victory with a limited nuclear war - Russian troops on the Rhine, the French break out the Instasun (tm) and are bombed to shit whilst London and Washington stab Paris in the back with a two-foot machete and walk away whistling. The West Germans and Austrians are fucked over whilst Britain becomes very Tory and very, very, very hawkish. Powell as Maggie on steroids with a pint of gin takes power - the "voluntary" reparations likely are blocked by his party but he is still rather racist, even by the standards of his time. Civil war in SA likely happens and the world becomes very crapsacky.
FUCK.This.
Eden was PM during the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Where does a Junior Housing Minister (Powell) play a role in this timeline? Also, where are the French Nukes coming in since they didn't have any until 1960? And Polaris wasn't introduced until 1961?