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Originally Posted by Heffe
My apologies, I'm talking specifically about the 4e timeline. In the 4E canon timeline, it's clear that Syria and Iran are already on board with the USSR.
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I know the paragraph, but given the fact that FL offers us just that, I'd be cautious to read a full blown military alliance between the three states into that, since that would be a major political shift and is nowhere mentioned before or afterwards. I'd expect more to take that for granted.
In fact, this is all we get for that region for 1998, the year that the war becomes global an nuclear. So, it could also be that the Iranians help Syria, since both regimes are close, and the USSR does the same, for the same reasons. Similar to how other countries might conduct punitive actions at the same time against the same opponent of their mutually allied state, without themselves being in any form of formal alliance.
Case in point: Syria participated in Operation Desert Storm, but at no point was there a formal alliance between Syria and the US in place beyond the goal to expel Iraq from Kuwait. Also, the following nations supported North Yemen in the 1994 civil war: USA, Jordan, Qatar, Egypt, Sudan, Iran and India. While South Yemen was supported by Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Bahrain, UAE, Cuba, North Korea and China. Though neither were the US allied with Iran during that time, nor at war or even close to with Saudi Arabia.
I hope, I'm getting my point across here.