It's basically the V1 timeline, but has the start of the Sino-Soviet War in August 2000... 2001 the fighting is confined to USSR and PRC, but when the fighting turns against the Soviets they force Warsaw Pact to send troops who arrive in 2002. Nukes aren't thrown about in the Euro-Soviet War theater until 2005 with the last real nuke exchanges happening with the TDM and retailation strikes. The Summer Offensive takes place in 2007.
Unlike the regular T2k setting there are still some satellites... CivGov uses the Emergency Alert Service network, and MilGov has the Armed Forces Network to provide broadcasting and network news. thus the working cable networks fall into one of these two umbrellas.
a rough outline of the timeline...
1989: The Black winter, the Soviet Union crackdown on the pro-Democratic movements throughout Eastern Europe.
1990: Desert Shield
1991: Desert Storm occurs, teaches both the US and USSR lessons that they will use to modernize both their nations armed forces.
1992: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías coup d'état overthrows the Venezuelan government, and brings his socialist government to power. Zaire becomes the African Peoples Democratic Republic, the first step in establishing the Congo Pact.
1993: The Italian Republic given permission by the United Nations to rebuild the infrastructure of the Somali Republic.
1994: France withdraws from NATO. PRC, Mongolian Peoples Republic and North Korea form the Beijing Pact...
1995: A cabal of left-leaning officers carry out a coup d'état in Mexico. The new Mexican government secretly opens talks with Venezuela & Cuba establish a military treaty organization that will become known as the Havana Pact while still taking US foreign economic and military aid. The third and successful assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II took place in Makati City, Philippines. The Third Taiwan Straight Crisis.
1996: After the growing split between the heads of state of the Italian Republic and the Hellenic Republic with US and UK leadership of NATO, they formally withdraw from the NATO Alliance and ally with France to from the Med Alliance.
1997: The 'luxury industries' that are allowed to be imported into the Eastern Bloc: Starbucks Coffee Shop and Café, Victoria's Secret lingerie, Levi Strauss, Barnes and Noble booksellers, Pepsi, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1998:
1999:
2000: Start of the Sino-Soviet War
2001: Warsaw Pact nations forced to send forces to the Sino-Soviet War.
2002: The Best forces of the NVA and other East European Armies used as cannon fodder sparks uprisings throughout Eastern Europe.
2003: DDR Bloodless Coup. US reinstated the Draft. Start of Euro-Soviet War.
2004: Presidential election cycle, the start of Rationing of War Critical Resources.
2005: Limited Nuclear exchanges & the Thanksgiving Day Massacre.
2006: CivGov/MilGov Spilt occurs over serious irregularities of the legality of the so-called rump congress.
2007: The Summer Offensive.
