WI: Niš incident turns into war between USA, UK, France & USSR

On October 1944, while Soviet troops liberate the city of Niš in Yugoslavia while advancing to Belgrade. Meanwhile, the USAF was bombing German-Albanian units in Kosovo. The US planes mistook the Soviet tanks as panzers and attacked them, which leads to the Soviets called for air support and a 5-minute dogfight ensues, until the Americans and Soviets backed off.

What if this turned into a war between USA/UK/France vs USSR? Who will win? Will Germany team up with the Allies?
 
On October 1944, while Soviet troops liberate the city of Niš in Yugoslavia while advancing to Belgrade. Meanwhile, the USAF was bombing German-Albanian units in Kosovo. The US planes mistook the Soviet tanks as panzers and attacked them, which leads to the Soviets called for air support and a 5-minute dogfight ensues, until the Americans and Soviets backed off.

What if this turned into a war between USA/UK/France vs USSR? Who will win? Will Germany team up with the Allies?

Realistically the most you'd see from this is a lot more unintentional deaths and a very, very big apology from both sides (probably more from the West). Neither the Soviets or the WAllies wanted anything resembling a war with each other, and cooler heads would ultimately prevail.
 
What if this turned into a war between USA/UK/France vs USSR? Who will win?
The side which will soon have nukes and possesses one country which alone has a greater GDP than the rest of the planet combined and is supplying the other side heavily

Not that this will end up as a war
 
Lots of people with egg on their face, dead bodies on both sides, the most hawkish are calling for war on both sides. Stalin will execute anyone who publicly advocates such an idea, the Western Allies will simply marginalize them.

The Soviets don't want war, the West doesn't want war, if the Soviets go out, the West loses the big fighting force that soaks up the majority of the Wehrmacht in the war and then THEY have to pay the butcher's bill for defeating Germany, if the West leaves, the Soviets have no more Lend-Lease aid and probably have to sign a conditional surrender with the Germans, it cannot be overestimated how much Lend-Lease helped the USSR, especially at the end because it covered Soviet food needs so that they could conscript farmers and other typical "bottom of the barrel" reserves, with no Lend-Lease, they suddenly are a drastically smaller force occupying a huge chunk of territory with a German military that can still fight. If the Soviets want their Eastern European buffer zone, Nazi Germany might have to stay standing in such a case.

In short, cooler heads prevail and we get to hear from our grandparents about how we almost went to war with the Russians.
 
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