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A bit off-topic, but if you're going to overthrow Saddam, the obvious next step is to carve up the country into three parts: a Kurdish one, a Shi'a one and a Sunni one. This would generally prevent insurgencies, although there'd be a fair amount of ethnic cleansing & expulsions going on amongst...

Well, I already jotted down my general thoughts in post #2 of this thread. Regarding military, what you're doing is dividing the world into blocs that will be fairly distrusting of each other. As I mentioned, I'd expect poorer-than-OTL-China to partnet up with Russia, at which point they also...

My reasoning is that you're asking for a really big shift here. Not just "the USA cuts back on its NATO spending and tells the allies to pull their weight" but more "the USA pulls out of NATO in all but name". Perot and Tsongas just didn't want that. They'd be game for the former idea, but not...

In OTL, there's the luxury of caring about such things. In an ATL where Europe has to face Russia alone, with the Cold War only barely ended, they will want any buffer zone they can get. The European armies were proportionally stronger than today, but still very underwhelming compared to what...

First of all: I don't know how you'd make President Buchanan happen (I've argued the unlikelihood of it another thread; 'America First' just didn't have the required degree of popular support to win elections back then), but that's what it takes. Even a Perot Presidency wouldn't do the trick...