Im doing an alternate history scenario with a friend and this is my map for 1980. I wanted some fresh eyes to look at this and give some history changes.
the only relavent alteration of history i have here is that I changed the result of the Ecuadorian elections which made it less dependent on the USA.
South Africa and Turkey being 'west'? nah. China & Mexico being the same 'nonaligned' color? nah
I mean, Turkey is a part of NATO and a vital part of western capitalism's warmongering against the soviet union, and south africa is a white favoring apartheid state in league with western capital.
what do you suggest for a 'non-aligned' section? Im not doing a hyper in depth map but something more general. Its specifically about alignment with the Soviet Union or USA
the yankees and euroimperialists were at best ambivalent, and eventually assented to embargoes on them. south africa is definitionally marginal since the suez canal was dug, there wasn't a strategic reason to back the boers. much easier to throw your domestic left a bone and sternly reprimand it.
that China & Mexico aren't in it. China was working toward their own constellation of affiliate movements, Mexico was comprador in the 80s