What would the world be like...

China didn't like the USSR because they became soft but they would like hard ass stalinists

Fucking Kaiserreich would happen.

Vietnam and North Korea were devastated by the Civil Wars. Especially North Korea.

China had a massive Civil War during the 1930s and 40s, in case you forgot, so they were pretty much in the process of rebuilding until like the 1960s. By which time they were splitting off from the Soviets. They may have helped in WWIII but it would've been for purely self-interest. Also the Chinese Military sucked ass. I mean it's great in terms of size and it could certainly defend China proper but their military was unable to maintain proper supply lines through bad terrain and they lost huge numbers to far fewer opponents. The Chinese-Vietnam War proves this. Not to mention the Korean War to an extent.

Cuba was weak and worthless. It's only importance to either side was its proximity to America. It's comparable to Nicaragua.

At it's best the USSR military was as good as (or even better then) the US military and was much bigger. The same gose for the Chinese military. At that time the Russians most likely had American tech and could have bypassed their defenses via Cuba and Alaska. And do not forget that it would have been 2020 or something, so they would also have EMPs.

You are all forgetting the fact that armies are worth fuck in a NUCLEAR WAR!

Oh yeah forgotten about that, thanks for reminding me.

No it was far worse than our military. Afghanistan is good example. At least in Vietnam it was because we weren't willing to attack North Vietnam proper. The Russians sucked. Not to mention the Korean War where we outperformed them by a lot.

The Chinese Military is a basketcase of a million people. If China itself is attacked they will becoming an unstoppable killing machine but you're a fool to think they could even complete an invasion of Japan or something, let alone attack America. This is for the various reasons I already said.

No they didn't. Most things we had better of for the majority of the Cold War.
1) An invasion through Alaska? That's an incredibly stupid military strategy. Perhaps a small attack to seize Alaska and threaten Victoria would work, but you can't sail a battle navy through the Baring Straight. There's a million problems.

2) An invasion from Cuba? Like we wouldn't fucking notice that. We'd have the entirety of the South East turned into a fortress by that time.

Oh no, EMPs! What will we do? EMPs are nonsensical. You can just EMP proof things like its no problem at all. Sure your car might have problems but a hundred million dollar military tank is prepared for that kind of shit. And why exactly would this be 2020? I mean by 2020 all sorts of shit could change from the 70s and 80s. Not to mention you can hardly even base the modern day off of what could happen by 2020 because the entire world would be different.

Neither side would nuke the world because that doesn't win you the war, that just makes the entire world lose. So we probably would've fought for a while and then one side would start losing. The losing side would fire an ICBM at a somewhat major city like Manchester or Minsk or Kursk or Boston and then the winning side would fire an ICBM with the same intent. Then they would begin to stand down and the winning side would be the clear winner of the Cold War.

You can't be sure. Desperate times call for desperate measures. It may only take one ICBM to be leaunched to precipitate an entire nuclear war. Besides, why would their ever be a WW3? And why wouldn't it involve ICBM. Nukes are the only thing preventing anotger world war at this point. And why would only one ICBM? Why not the entire arsenal? Yes the world would lose, no question, but my only question in the end is 1) Why is there a WW3 without ICBM's and 2) Why would only one ICBM be fired?

Since humans don't want to go fucking extinct.

If we used that logic, then we should be able to achieve world peace.

Because both ideologies want to "liberate" the world from the other. You can't do that if you destroy humanity.

Because an ICBM would only be fired in desperation. No one wants to nuke a continent and kill nearly a billion people if they don't have to. A single ICBM will be fired in order to remind the enemy that their nation isn't helpless yet and that if they advance any more they will get nuked to shit. An ICBM will be fired in retaliation to prove that the other side isn't just going to take that from some no good Capitalist/Communist.

Bringing this thread back to life!

What would the world be like if...


There were no Middle Ages

(Other dudes then me may post questions stuff aswell)

Necroposting?

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Read the rules. They talk about this.

Oh. OK.

Ehrm, the Renaissance would begin earlier, but without the name Renaissance, maybe?

Well, that would mean that the Roman Empire would have never fell.

Another uber empire could have taken their place. And the MA were times of no technological advance wath so ever, so the world could have looked entirely different in 2000. Might even have colonized the moon by now.