WI: No NAM

What would've happened if the NAM never emerged?

Say US and/ or Soviet actions (diplomatic or otherwise) strangle the efforts to form the NAM just before it was crystallizing into a real alternative bloc. Or for some reason it simply falls apart right after it begins. Whatever the case, what would've been the diplomatic/ geopolitical fate of the early 1960's NAM states? Which bloc would they gravitate towards or be pulled into? Granted, context obviously matters, but in general, which direction would they be most likely to head in, given the governments and domestic politics they possessed at the time?

A) the US bloc
B) the Soviet bloc
C) a nascent Chinese bloc
D) a new French bloc?
E) remained/ reverted to relative isolation
or F) attempted to form their own small regional bloc

These are the original NAM members:

Yugoslavia

Cuba

Syria

Iraq

Egypt

Algeria

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Morocco

Sudan

Yemen

Somalia

Ethiopia

Mali

Guinea

Ghana

Congo

Afghanistan

India

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Burma

Cambodia

Indonesia
 
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