The Cold War: A Timeout

When you have multiple parties, more than two parties at war, you will often see allies flip. And that is the continuation of World War II with the side switched. It went from US, UK and the USSR against the right wing terror states of the Axis to the defeated Axis's ruling elites now signing essentially a separate piece with US and the UK. Then going to war in the rest of the world with the US Anglo former ally, the Soviet Union. There's no option where warfare is not the defining characteristic of the 20th century, but warfare with perhaps a different outcome. Like we come on the other end of the of the monstrous conflagrations of the20th century, knitting