What if~The Cold War continued?

What? Do you say you're sick?

Maybe you have a sore throat; maybe it's from you screaming "Communist" a lot lately.

Is your nose stuffy and running? It could be from running all over Europe performing espionage.

Do you say you have a fever? Perhaps it's from the heat from those Nuclear Bombs you've been testing.

This could only be one thing.

Yes, this is an alternate Cold War scenario. We know that the Cold War began shortly after World War 2, and it ended in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, and the USSR fell 2 years later.

But, what if, in an alternate reality, the Cold War didn't end by the 90s? What if it continued, possibly even to the modern-day?

This is what this wiki page will try to cover.

Instead of telling you real history since the Cold War is covered enough already on this wiki. It's going right to the alternate scenarios, one where the USSR "somehow" stays stable enough to last up to the 90s, and another where China comes in and continues the War.

Let's begin.

## 1st Scenario

Now, this scenario is quite unlikely to happen (to say the least). That's because, by the 1980s, all of the problems that the USSR was having are becoming a crisis for the USSR, and the uprisings in the Union's Warsaw Pact states and the Chernobyl disaster didn't help either.

But let's say that the USSR (in some form of magical, uh, thing) they were able to assess and fix their problems and remain politically, economically, and socially stable throughout the 80s and into the 90s.

If this happens, it will be likely that the Cold War would be like the way it always was, building more Nukes, more tanks, more ships, you get the point.

US Foreign Policy would also stay the same, as it'll be the one to stamp out communism wherever it may be.

Yeah, that's a pretty boring scenario. Here's a more interesting one.

## Scenario 2

This scenario is more of a "less unlikely" type of alternate scenario.

In this alternate reality, the USSR still keels over and dies on Christmas Day in 1991.

But, China, a fellow communist nation, decides to continue the Cold War.

This could be for one of 2 reasons; either to continue the work of the USSR and antagonize the west, or (more than likely) show to the Socialist world that it has bigger testicles than the USSR and try to achieve something that the USSR couldn't; topple the west, the United States of America in particular.

It's also possible that China can still go down the same path as it did in our reality: to give in to some "Capitalist Ideals" but try to use it to get ahead of the west.

In this alternate scenario, a Cold War against China could see it as more than just an arms race. Still, competition between businesses in both China and the USA has million-dollar companies, and both will use that income to bolster and upgrade their military, though more so China than the US.

It's also possible that the American propaganda system would discredit everything Chinese since it's the enemy in this alternate reality, very much how the US Propaganda system discredited anything Russian during the 50s. However, it wouldn't be to the extent of the 50s with McCarthyism and the "Red Scare."

Though the case against this is the fact that Mao Tse Tung has killed more Chinese People through the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution than even Joseph Stalin in the Russian Civil War and the Russian Purges of the 1930s, so to the masses and the media, China can be seen as a bigger enemy than the USSR.

What about the Millions of Chinese people living in America? Well, due to the US Propaganda shunning anything Chinese, they would have a harder time getting into a decent lifestyle with decent jobs or even fitting into mostly white (or African-American) communities. The only difference is that Chinese people would have it easy compared to, say, the Japanese during WW2 or the African-Americans in the 60s as the Government won't intern them or make them follow Jim Crow Laws or anything like that. Immigration from China would also be difficult because they would be screened and watched by American organizations such as the FBI and INS to make sure that the Chinese Immigrants aren't communist spies (very much like with the USSR), and Chinese Intel and other organizations would also give Americans traveling to China the same treatment within China.

Could there be conflicts? That is definitely a possibility. But it'll be just like during the Cold War; both the USA and China would fund Proxy Wars in other parts of the world such as in South America, Africa, and maybe the Middle East too.

It is also likely in this alternate reality that America would also focus militarily on the Far East and bolster the armies of Japan, South Korea, and even the Philippines, making the possibility of another Korean War likely. The outcome would put Korea in the same state as Germany was after World War 2. What is also likely that Japan, South Korea, The Philippines could also become members of NATO. Because of this, the European nations of Britain and Portugal wouldn't be so keen on giving up their cities (Hong Kong and Macau, respectively) to keep China on the level of the war and gain the upper hand.

Whoa, wait a minute, what about Nukes?

Well, unlike the USSR, China doesn't have a huge nuclear arsenal, and it's definitely not in the same ballpark as the US, especially that these tallies are from currently with China having (as of right now) 320 Nukes, in the 90s, they would've had fewer.

Now, these are just possible scenarios.

One thing that can be generally assumed in both scenarios that American Foreign policy wouldn't change and will show to the world that it can cleanse the world of communism by the means at hand, of course.

In both scenarios, it'll be difficult to actually say that the world would see the rise of radical Islamic Terrorism. One of the biggest reasons why these organizations exist in our time, and our reality was because of the USSR when it invaded Afghanistan. The Mujahideen (aided by the west) defeated the Soviets, and after their conflict against the Soviets would sell off their weapons to other terrorist organizations such as Al-Queda, which led to the rise of that organization and force the US into the seemingly endless war of religion in the middle east.

In an alternate reality where the Cold War would continue, the rise of Islamic Terrorism may have been different or not happen at all.

It's also unlikely that we would see the type of technology we practical people use today such as smaller computers, the internet, Smart Phones, and other things like that since they were developed and even tested by the military and intelligence agencies around the world, fearing that it may give the enemy an advantage.

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