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This is based off of predictions that a Third World War/Second Cold War is right around the corner. It's silly and riddled with parallelism, though I did sprinkle in some original elements here and there. The PoD is that I never came up with the idea for this scenario.

- A Second Great Depression starts in October 2019, resulting in Trump losing to Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders in a landslide in 2020. Sanders proceeds to enact policies that his detractors are quick to blast as tantamount to communism, though they aren't really that different from the same measures FDR took to stop the first Great Depression.
- Brexit goes ahead like planned, and after a few years British democracy is overthrown and a Putinist dictatorship takes over. Meanwhile in Africa, South Africa falls to a nationalist coup and becomes a totalitarian state, proceeding to invade Central Africa and begin asserting its dominance over the southern half of the continent.
- Putin annexes Belarus and eastern Ukraine, drawing concern from many who recognize the parallelism, but European negotiators figure that he'll stop there. Surprise, he doesn't, and World War Three starts after Putin invades the Baltics. Britain joins Russia, as the new dictatorship has quite a lot of nostalgia for the glory days of the British Empire. Russia and China divide Mongolia between them, but Putin betrays and invades China afterwards.
- The conflict is non-nuclear initially, and the development of effective anti-nuke defense systems by all parties as the war progresses ensures it stays conventional and renders nuclear warfare obsolete.
- Though America initially stays out of the war thanks to Putin-sympathizers across the country, after South Africa orders a bombing raid on Puerto Rico in hopes of forcing America to reopen trade with it, America declares war on South Africa and Russia.
- Russia is defeated after the Chinese capture of Moscow, while South Africa is attacked by an American orbital mass driver before it surrenders.
- In the aftermath, a Cold War begins between China and the West, later joined by the Central African Union after Chinese neocolonialism in and around the Congo succeeds in creating an "artificial nation" of sorts. China itself does away with its communist symbolism and becomes the Chinese Union.
- The EU, minus Britain and the Balkans, federates in fear of the Chinese.
- Having spent over a decade out in the cold after the Sanders victory in 2020, the Republican party ends up shifting significantly leftward, while the Democrats wholly embrace progressivism and democratic socialism.
- The Second Cold War ends in 2081 with the reunification of Russia and the collapse of the Chinese Union.
- Similarly to how neoliberalism prevailed after the fall of the Soviet Union, democratic socialism prevailed after the fall of the Chinese Union. The United States has recovered its position of global hyperpower and is the undisputed master of the world, though the actions of a Reagan-analogue have driven it dangerously close to outright communism- electoral democracy is still maintained, of course, but there's little in the way of a proper fiscal right-wing in politics currently. The current major national debate is automation and how to deal with it slowly overtaking the workforce.
- Though the European Federation did end up losing many of its members after the hasty post-World War Three federalization via secession, the core group of France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Austria still remains. The European Union is still an entity, though it's much bigger than it once was and has been renamed the Eurasian Union thanks to an influx of new Asian members in the years after the fall of China. Ironically, however, the European Federation is starting to grow skeptical of total federalization, and some want it to leave the Eurasian Union.
- The Republic of China, as it calls itself now, is a flawed democracy that many fear might descend right back into dictatorship again. It's a bitter, broken country, and many Chinese still yearn for the glory days of the Chinese Union.
- While the Chinese Union fell, the Central African Union is still going strong, and some wonder if it may be the next great power.
- The date is currently September 11, 2091, and in mere hours, Catholic terrorists operating out of Bolivia will crash satellites into several major buildings in New York City and Washington, D.C., resulting in an American invasion of South America that will transform the continent into a quagmire of extremism for years to come and turn the entire global order on its head. Whether World War Four is around the corner as well, only time will tell.

Description
This is based off of predictions that a Third World War/Second Cold War is right around the corner. It's silly and riddled with parallelism, though I did sprinkle in some original elements here and there. The PoD is that I never came up with the idea for this scenario.

- A Second Great Depression starts in October 2019, resulting in Trump losing to Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders in a landslide in 2020. Sanders proceeds to enact policies that his detractors are quick to blast as tantamount to communism, though they aren't really that different from the same measures FDR took to stop the first Great Depression.
- Brexit goes ahead like planned, and after a few years British democracy is overthrown and a Putinist dictatorship takes over. Meanwhile in Africa, South Africa falls to a nationalist coup and becomes a totalitarian state, proceeding to invade Central Africa and begin asserting its dominance over the southern half of the continent.
- Putin annexes Belarus and eastern Ukraine, drawing concern from many who recognize the parallelism, but European negotiators figure that he'll stop there. Surprise, he doesn't, and World War Three starts after Putin invades the Baltics. Britain joins Russia, as the new dictatorship has quite a lot of nostalgia for the glory days of the British Empire. Russia and China divide Mongolia between them, but Putin betrays and invades China afterwards.
- The conflict is non-nuclear initially, and the development of effective anti-nuke defense systems by all parties as the war progresses ensures it stays conventional and renders nuclear warfare obsolete.
- Though America initially stays out of the war thanks to Putin-sympathizers across the country, after South Africa orders a bombing raid on Puerto Rico in hopes of forcing America to reopen trade with it, America declares war on South Africa and Russia.
- Russia is defeated after the Chinese capture of Moscow, while South Africa is attacked by an American orbital mass driver before it surrenders.
- In the aftermath, a Cold War begins between China and the West, later joined by the Central African Union after Chinese neocolonialism in and around the Congo succeeds in creating an "artificial nation" of sorts. China itself does away with its communist symbolism and becomes the Chinese Union.
- The EU, minus Britain and the Balkans, federates in fear of the Chinese.
- Having spent over a decade out in the cold after the Sanders victory in 2020, the Republican party ends up shifting significantly leftward, while the Democrats wholly embrace progressivism and democratic socialism.
- The Second Cold War ends in 2081 with the reunification of Russia and the collapse of the Chinese Union.
- Similarly to how neoliberalism prevailed after the fall of the Soviet Union, democratic socialism prevailed after the fall of the Chinese Union. The United States has recovered its position of global hyperpower and is the undisputed master of the world, though the actions of a Reagan-analogue have driven it dangerously close to outright communism- electoral democracy is still maintained, of course, but there's little in the way of a proper fiscal right-wing in politics currently. The current major national debate is automation and how to deal with it slowly overtaking the workforce.
- Though the European Federation did end up losing many of its members after the hasty post-World War Three federalization via secession, the core group of France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Austria still remains. The European Union is still an entity, though it's much bigger than it once was and has been renamed the Eurasian Union thanks to an influx of new Asian members in the years after the fall of China. Ironically, however, the European Federation is starting to grow skeptical of total federalization, and some want it to leave the Eurasian Union.
- The Republic of China, as it calls itself now, is a flawed democracy that many fear might descend right back into dictatorship again. It's a bitter, broken country, and many Chinese still yearn for the glory days of the Chinese Union.
- While the Chinese Union fell, the Central African Union is still going strong, and some wonder if it may be the next great power.
- The date is currently September 11, 2091, and in mere hours, Catholic terrorists operating out of Bolivia will crash satellites into several major buildings in New York City and Washington, D.C., resulting in an American invasion of South America that will transform the continent into a quagmire of extremism for years to come and turn the entire global order on its head. Whether World War Four is around the corner as well, only time will tell.