Second Cold War (2047-2082)

The Second Cold War, commonly known as the 2nd Cold War, Cold War II, Cold War 2 or the New Cold War, was an era of geopolitical tension between Germany, Japan, UK and USSR, and their respective allies, the Western, Southeastern, Northwestern and Eastern Blocs, which began following World War III. The "bloodless" conflict is analogous to the Cold War from 1945 after World War II ended, and until 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. It is unknown to what day it started and ended, but it is believed that it is generally considered to span from the 4th of April 2047, the day the Hoffman doctrine was announced, to the 1st of August 2082, the day Soviet Union declared war on Germany after a malfunction in the USSR's military computer system, which eventually turned into the all-out nuclear Fourth World War. The term "Cold War" is used because there was no large-scale conflict between the four superpowers, but they each supported proxy wars, which are major regional conflicts. The conflict was based around the geopolitical struggle for global influence by USSR and Germany, following their temporary alliance and victory against the United States during WW3 in 2045. Aside from the electromagnetic, nuclear and anti-matter arsenal development and conventional military development, the struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as cyberwarfare, propaganda, espionage, far-reaching embargoes, rivalry at sports events such as the Olympics and Wimbledon, rivalry at eSports and technological competitions such as the AI Arms Race, and most notably, the Second Space Race. The Greater Germanic Reich and their allies backed and funded anti-Moscow Pact and right wing movements and uprisings and the USSR backed and funded pro-Soviet revolutions around the world, while UK and Japan funded anti-Nazi and Anti-Soviet revolutions, movements and uprisings. As nearly all the Antarctic colonies before and during WW3 achieved independence in the period 2055-2082, they became Third World battlefields in the Second Cold War. The 2nd Cold War was the preceding event of WW4.