So with a POD no sooner than 1945, though it can either before or after WWII ends for all I care, how can you make the OTL Cold War less about the ideologies of Communism vs. Capitalism, and more about American vs. Soviet interests that cross ideological lines (in other words, ideology be damned)?
So how can the effect of a less ideological but still more or less tense Cold War of the 20th century effect world politics?
Bonus points for getting Maoist China against the USSR earlier than OTL's 1961.