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The Coup: One major arc of the timeline features Richard Helms, the director of the CIA, attempting to pull a behind-the-scenes coup against President Bush, having previously forced President Rhodes out of power by blackmailing him with knowledge of his illegal activities.Richard Helms murders multiple police officers while on the run.Dozens of police officers are killed in terror attacks by the Black Panthers after the EPAB is passed.Conditioned to Accept Horror: ROC troops serving on mainland China have to contend with mass starvation, biological warfare, and near-anarchy on a daily basis, and end up coping surprisingly well to the litany of horrors.Gets to ridiculous levels when the director of the CIA tries to launch a coup. Both agencies are horribly corrupt and authoritarian, the FBI having been responsible for the unlawful detention and killings of thousands of (mostly black) citizens deemed "subversive", while the CIA sponsors Neo-Nazi terrorism and supports overseas dictatorships. First he gets thrown through a window by law enforcement during a protest and arrested, then gets carjacked by Director Helms of the CIA. The Chew Toy: A college-aged Bill Clinton, who makes several cameo appearances in the timeline.Icarus: 2000 mentions independent Assam and Khalistan as a result of the Indian Civil War.After the Soviet Civil War, the Soviet Union loses every country that they lost in 1991 except Central Asia and Ukraine.Some of the splinter states (and a few neighboring countries to boot) gain unaccounted-for nuclear weapons in the process. Balkanize Me: Mongolia, Tibet, Uyghuristan, Manchuria, Guangdong, and Taiwan (the Republic of China) split up a large swath of China among themselves.
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While they do succeed in both initiating Operation Scourge and nuking Mecca, the former didn't come off like they planned and the latter ends with all of them being killed, so it's hard to really see them as winning on either occasion. The Bad Guy Wins: Zig-zagged with Paladin.The Soviet republics of Central Asia also get a class when they get nuked in retaliation for siding with Kosygin in the Soviet Civil War.Apocalypse How: China gets subjected to a class 0 in a nuclear exchange with the USSR.Alternate History Wank: Israel gets a big one when they end up conquering Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan through the use of nuclear weapons.