>>8086092>>8086102Depends how far from reality you're willing to get. If you wanna go absolutely wild with it, you could have conciliatory leadership in the USA and USSR go to war simultaneously against an extremely powerful China
>RFK elected president>Khruschev never deposed>Great Leap Forward is wildly successful, so much so that by the late 60's China is larger and probably stronger than the USSR>RFK negotiates peace with Ho Chi Minh and starts to pull troops out of South Vietnam by mid-1969>China attacks North Vietnam right after Ho Chi Minh dies>Khruschev moves to protect Soviet influence in North Vietnam but doesn't want to openly attack a fellow Communist state>North Vietnam, in desperation, negotiates South Vietnamese support under the assumption that China won't stop at the border>RFK halts withdrawal of troops from South Vietnam, still more than 100k troops stationed there>China responds by starting the Khmer Rouge revolution early, effectively surrounding Vietnam with hostiles>China sees lots of success in 1970 and 71, North Vietnam is crumbling even with support from the South>South Vietnam is begging RFK for intervention against China, RFK doesn't want to get involved openly, but declares that Chinese incursion into South Vietnam will be met with US force>North Korea takes the opportunity to attack South Korea again>NATO makes a joint statement against the USA basically saying they're sitting this one out>USSR starts pulling forces out of Europe and lining the border with China, threatens to cut communications with China if they don't pull out of Vietnam>a small (probably) accidental border skirmish instigated by a Soviet soldier escalates the conflict>USA forced to send troops back to Korea>Japan takes the opportunity to try and snag some Chinese coastlineBasically an extremely contrived way to get Type 61s, M60s, and T-64s all on the same side
