User blog comment:YNot1989/The Sandwich that Changed the World./@comment-899576-20090801051730

I was thinking the alliances would be either a European Alliance vs. an Asian Coalition (see chinese sphere's of influence) with the US siding with Europe to secure the China trade for themselves (the US has been trying to get access to China since the country was formed); or possibly the US forms some kind of unholy alliance with the Russians and Japanese (see Treaty of Portsmouth). Either way this war would encompas the entire world, the US would most likely still emerge as a great superpower, but its rival, if any, would probably be either Japan, the Russian Empire (or possibly a successor state), or potentially Great Britain as the Imperial Federation (WWI was what really derailed the ideal of a federated british empire.)