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Not necessarily regarding Ethiopia as the appaling mismanagement of the old imperial regime caused massive resentment. True the communist dictatorship that followed was ever more brutal but when people are desperate they will risk a new disaster rather than the current one their sure of being...

I agree, I can't see any of the three western powers with nukes giving them up but I think the appeasers and unilateralism - or the genocide movement as I have called them in the past ;) - would get more support and their not exactly vulnerable to reason or logic so I would expect a lot more...

One other thing that hasn't been mentioned so far is the impact on the eastern tigers, i.e. Japan, S Korea and Taiwan. Even if Mao doesn't try and nuke the latter when he realises his empire is going down all three - along with N Korea - will suffer a hell of a lot from fallout and possibly...

You will still get a number of socialist and probably a few clearly communist states in Africa. Some were in place already and their claims for universiality and hostility toward the west as the former colonizers will continue to make them attractive. Especially while the Portuguese empire and...

One down-side to this in the west is that the nuclear disarmers are likely to be a lot more active and gather far more support. :( Fortunately I doubt they will have the infleunce to make either Britain or France give up their nukes, especially since the more far sighted will see the dangers...