Return of the Kennedys

POD: Ted Kennedy manages a better campaign and wins the 1980 Democratic Nomination against incumbent Jimmy Carter. This was the only time in modern U.S history that an incumbent lost against a member of his own party.

Former Soviet Republics


In 1982, President Ted Kennedy signed the Leningrad accords with Lenoid Brezhnev. America would give aid to help the war in Afghanistan in exchange for independence of Soviet Republics in Eastern Europe.

In 1986, Head of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev created the Organization of Former Soviet Republics. The OFSR is a council of Russia, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Montenegro, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus centered in Warsaw. Afghanistan began to host regional elections in 1990, but has not yet gained full autonomy and is garrisoned by a joint Soviet force.

Yemen
In the wake of the Soviet Conquest of Afghanistan, Islamic Extremist Muhammad Omar fled for Yemen in 1990,opposing peaceful unification of Yemen. he created his personal action group The Taliaban in 1991 and managed to take control of Democratic North Yemen in 1996 by popular insurgency. In what he called The Last Jihad. In February of 1999, he personally lead a surprise invasion on Socialist South Yemen, he was however with American and Soviet intervention soundly defeated outside the city of Sanna. Muhammad Omar was killed in battle and his Taliban disintegrated. In a joint rule of the country U.S President Dole and OFSR Prime Minister Zyunganov disagreed on the future of the Country, Dole wanted Yemen to Join NATO and adopt Capitalist reform, this proved to be unpopular around the World and much of America it's self. Zyunganov wanted Yemen to join OFSR and host free elections by 2002.

President Ventura after be inaugurated in 2001 was eager to pull American Forces out of many international bases and drastically tone down military spending, therefore he struck a bargain with Zyunganov in Treaty of London, which was signed on February 11th.

Yemen would gain sub-member status in the OFSR. The Red Army and the U.S Army would pull out of Yemen by the end of 2002. Free Elections are to be held in November of 2002. In 2002 Ali Abdallah Salih was elected as President of Yemen, he continues to rule the nation to this day.

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