Hey everyone, I'm Mazarin and this is my first post here.
This is basically different Cold War geopolitical and geographical configurations, scenarios and set ups.
To Start with, different iron curtains.
Franco-German Iron Curtain: POD where the Soviets get to the German border(maybe a delayed D-Day or otherwise stalled western progress). Thus limiting the NATO States to France, the Low Countries, and also Spain and Portugal. Likely Soviet Denmark and possibly Finlanidized Scandinavia.
Pro Soviet Yugoslavia: This changes the Balkan front and threatens Greece and Turkey, and also menaces northeastern Italy and Austria. POD could be elimination of Tito and installation of pro soviet head of Yugoslavia.
Further eastern Iron Curtain-roughly going from Kaliningrad down the German-Polish border down to Yugoslavia and the Adriatic. Pro Western or Neutral Germany. Not sure what the POD would be here.
Communist Spain and Pyrenees Curtain: Republican Spain toppled by Stalinist faction. Thus threatening NATO's southwestern flank. Probably more US/British presence in Portugal and a stronger relationship with Morocco from the US.
Divided Greece: The Aegean Islands and Crete are held by anti communists while mainland Greece is held by Pre Soviet communists, POD Communist victory in the Greek Civil War.
Warsaw Pact Civil War-anti Stalinism in Hungary coalesces into a general anti Soviet(if not anti communist movement) leading to interstate and civil war in the 1950s. With the Red Army playing whack-a-mole. Leading to NATO getting as far as the Polish border and holding the advantage in Europe. Conventionally anyway.
US intervention in China-somewhat ASBish, but full scale intervention to prevent a Maoist victory, with more than 700,000 US troops. Leading to Vietnam x1000. A decade early. This prevents Mao from winning, but leads to a grinding and destructive war complete with nuclear bombings and extraordinary American casualties.
Soviet collapse in the late forties:Soviet Civil War, with Red Army generals and NKVD leaders fighting to rule-a post Stalin diadochi of sorts. American hegemony is unchallenged until the emergence of Germany, Japan, and other "western" powers as economic and geopolitical rivals.
Some of these are more plausible than others, and some may be seen as implausible here. Though I do not consider any of them to be impossible in the ASB sense. Feel free to discuss your own scenarios, configurations and variations. Or mine.
This is basically different Cold War geopolitical and geographical configurations, scenarios and set ups.
To Start with, different iron curtains.
Franco-German Iron Curtain: POD where the Soviets get to the German border(maybe a delayed D-Day or otherwise stalled western progress). Thus limiting the NATO States to France, the Low Countries, and also Spain and Portugal. Likely Soviet Denmark and possibly Finlanidized Scandinavia.
Pro Soviet Yugoslavia: This changes the Balkan front and threatens Greece and Turkey, and also menaces northeastern Italy and Austria. POD could be elimination of Tito and installation of pro soviet head of Yugoslavia.
Further eastern Iron Curtain-roughly going from Kaliningrad down the German-Polish border down to Yugoslavia and the Adriatic. Pro Western or Neutral Germany. Not sure what the POD would be here.
Communist Spain and Pyrenees Curtain: Republican Spain toppled by Stalinist faction. Thus threatening NATO's southwestern flank. Probably more US/British presence in Portugal and a stronger relationship with Morocco from the US.
Divided Greece: The Aegean Islands and Crete are held by anti communists while mainland Greece is held by Pre Soviet communists, POD Communist victory in the Greek Civil War.
Warsaw Pact Civil War-anti Stalinism in Hungary coalesces into a general anti Soviet(if not anti communist movement) leading to interstate and civil war in the 1950s. With the Red Army playing whack-a-mole. Leading to NATO getting as far as the Polish border and holding the advantage in Europe. Conventionally anyway.
US intervention in China-somewhat ASBish, but full scale intervention to prevent a Maoist victory, with more than 700,000 US troops. Leading to Vietnam x1000. A decade early. This prevents Mao from winning, but leads to a grinding and destructive war complete with nuclear bombings and extraordinary American casualties.
Soviet collapse in the late forties:Soviet Civil War, with Red Army generals and NKVD leaders fighting to rule-a post Stalin diadochi of sorts. American hegemony is unchallenged until the emergence of Germany, Japan, and other "western" powers as economic and geopolitical rivals.
Some of these are more plausible than others, and some may be seen as implausible here. Though I do not consider any of them to be impossible in the ASB sense. Feel free to discuss your own scenarios, configurations and variations. Or mine.