Cold War alternative mini-scenarios thread

[Noscoper]

what if the competing Leninist and Maoist revolutionaries there end up duking it out in a proxy conflict involving China and the USSR?

As I posted earlier. This is otl.

 

[Monk78]

in 1974 the RVN is already on its deathbed. The 1988 Johnson South Reef Skirmish is more likely to become a consequential conflict.

And how do you see this 1988 conflict playing out ?

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

And how do you see this 1988 conflict playing out ?

PLAN still stomps the VPN, in retaliation the Vietnamese step up their operations in the still on-going Sino-Vietnamese Border War, PLA steps up their operations in reply, so on and so on up the escalation ladder.

 

[Monk78]

PLAN still stomps the VPN, in retaliation the Vietnamese step up their operations in the still on-going Sino-Vietnamese Border War, PLA steps up their operations in reply, so on and so on up the escalation ladder.

Can this lead to a second Chinese invasion?

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

Can this lead to a second Chinese invasion?

dunno

 

[Monk78]

dunno

In 1988 ussr is not bailing out the Vietnamese so I’d say it’s possible
Nor is US trying to deter the Chinese

 

[Gillan1220]

dunno

In 1988 ussr is not bailing out the Vietnamese so I’d say it’s possible
Nor is US trying to deter the Chinese

At this period, the PLA and the PVA were still fighting a border war. That border war only ended in 1990.

 

[purple_princess]

Apart fron the 'Stans - despite official condemnation there were substantial numbers of devout Moslems in the USSR.

Yes, exactly. I didn´t want to go into too much detail because I do not have the time, but I did not even begin to speak of the many Muslim majority autonomies within the RSFSR unit, with Chechnya being the obvious one that comes to mind.

 

[the Imperium of Canada]

I thought a particularly ironic one would be the Soviet Union managing to win the Cold War somehow, only for a united GDR Germany and Red France managing to end up essentially economically hijacking the Warsaw Pact out from under it as it's grip over it's satellite states and allies slowly starts to erode.

Not sure how'd you set up something like that though.

 

[Wendell]

Bolivia accepts Pinochet's land swap plan.