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I've been re-reading Twilight:2000.
Movie announcer voice: "In a world where..."
The Soviet economy worked and their weaponry performed like the CIA thought it would.
The USA supplied Communist China like we're supplying Ukraine today.
You have to really hold your nose from today's perspective to get that willing suspension of disbelief going; though once you get the situation rolling it still holds together.
It's just the triggering events and the reactions that lead to the Twilight War are just so implausible in hindsight even if they were possible from a 1985 perspective. Even making them possible is a bit of a stretch but...
The point was to have the conditions as declared at the start of the game and it didn't take THAT much handwavium to get there.
At least no laws of physics were broken...
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