1000 Battlefronts

A quick map I just made, inspired by a challenge in the AH forum (Baathism as a major terrorist ideology), and based on war videogames with a modern setting.

The POD for this timeline is that during the Six-Day War (that ITTL is known in the West as the First Arab War of Agression), the Arabs attack first and destroy the Israeli airforce, resulting in an Egyptian-Syrian victory and the consolidation of a restored United Arab republic and of Arab Socialism as a minor Cold War player. The new UAR would become increasingly influenced by Baathist elements, which would eventually take over and purge her of Nasserism.

The American abandonment of Israel derived in an almost universal European repulse, and culminated in the split of the NATO (which reformed into the broader, much more hawkish International Defense Protocol), and a bitter Anglo-European Split. The United States and the British are much more prone to support Islamist regimes and guerrillas, as a valuable ally against Communism and the UAR. Meanwhile, the UAR has turned Baathism into a model for many Leftist-Nationalist terrorist groups around the world, and has become its primary source of financing.

The Chinese diplomatic openness to the West never happened, and though it still reformed eventually, it never distanced itself from the conventional Socialist agenda as much as IOTL. Communism, now led by China, is doing much better, in spite of the Cold War coming to an end (with a nastier result for Russia). Peru is under the Shining Path control, and as Cambodia IOTL (and until today ITTL), it suffered a significant purge and reform, and now it's not nearly as nasty as it used to be. North Korea is still what it is IOTL, and it mantains a strategical association with China (which is growing icreasingly unconfortable about it), but it's pretty much a wild card by every account.

Europe is much more integrated and hawkish, bound by a common defense program since the sixties. Much of the African Francophonie lies under the European umbrella. Europe and America have been throwing very negative propaganda on each other for decades, and French is the European lingua franca. Nonetheless they still see each other as the lesser evil, and an all-out conflict between them is unlikely, though proxy fighting in remote fronts is not to be discarded... after all, it has already happened before.

In this much more tense and geopolitically fragmented world, Indhira Ghandi (and her son later on) effectively assumed dictatorial powers in the mid 80s and permanently reformed India on authoritarian lines, eventually taking over a Somalia-esque, war-torn Burma.

The end of the Cold War left a very nasty "rump" Serbia as a legacy. Russia, stripped from much of its influence over Eastern Europe, became even more volatile than OTL, and by the late 2000's, the Ultranationalist elements of the army had successfully orchestrated a coup d'etat, with a great popular support.

Brazil pretty much falls inside the EuroSphere, but suffers from the same problems of drug traffic as Mexico does IOTL, with large areas of Southern Brazil effectively controlled by the Comando Vermelho Puro, a unified narco-terrorist syndicate. Though they are theoretically left-leaning, they supply weapons to the Ultranationalist Ukrainian cells, wich makes Europe think about a military intervention.

The world is extremely polarized and unstable, and militarily more advanced. The multiple defensive shields prevent an eventual nuclear exchange to have global consequences, but all in all, the world has assumed for the most part, that it's just a matter of time until a miscalculation brings the war the world has tried to avoid since 1945...