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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 471447" data-attributes="member: 2205">OK, PB, great suggestions.  I went to a meeting just now in which I had little to contribute and less need to listen (sometimes folks around here just think the buyer needs to be involved in everything) so I thought some more about this.It looks like you corroberated my half remembered history of communist China congealing from the gestalt of a defeated Japan and a supportive Russia.  With Japan and Russia glaring at each other as rival superpowers on either end of China, I suspect that a strong Chinese government would have difficulty forming.  Likely, Mao would still create his unique breed of communism, but be very anti towards any of the superpowers.  Japan maintains territory that is actually now Chinese, and Russia probably chomps on the heels of Mongolia and Xinchiang, thus China is unable to annex (or at least maintain control of) any of those areas and possibly Tibet as well.  The West (the US/UK "axis") maintains a strong presence in Hong Kong, and Australia being a part of the Commonwealth as it is, very likely might be a staging point for US bases and ICBM silos, much as Western Europe was in actuality.  This actually makes China and Asia a hotbed of intrigue and covert operations, although China would still probably be a vacuum that would suck resources out of any overt agressor like there's no tomorrow.I also like your idea of a great Muslim crusade -- a political/religious/ethnic ruler that unites most of the Arab Middle East.  However, rather than be a aggressively militant, these guys would be pretty savvy aggressive economists, mainting strict neutrality and balancing the oil needs of the four superpowers against each other to maintain its own stability.  Again, this would turn the Middle East into a hotbed of intrigue and covert operations, but overt action in the area would be unlikely.A few other details -- the US barely tolerated a communist Cuba as is, under this new scenario there's no way in heck they would.  Covert operations to otherthrow Castro would have been more intense and ultimately successful, leading to a tight-lipped stand-off between the Soviets and the West.  However, pressure from the other superpowers to maintain the status quo would have prevented open warfare most likely.  This would have made the US hegemony over the Americas more complete, which probably would have stepped up Germany's efforts to destabilize and work covertly amongst the large german populations of South America in particular.</blockquote>

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