CENTCOM Viability

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by swaghauler

This is another place where my timeline varies from the Cannon. In my world, Russia never received the economic stimulus that the West gave them in reality. This means that we had NO INFLUENCE on Russian policy.

I suspect you could support this background with just saying that oil prices were higher than historical. That weakens the West while getting Iran & Iraq the money to buy that stuff, and probably heads off the collapse of Gorbachev's reforms.