Wasty: The cold war in Animalia I imagine was sort of a slower burn than in our universe. Without the events of WWII there wasn't as big a rush to create the atomic bomb (it was probably largely pursued for atomic energy purposes rather than war purposes), but it would still be created. More slowly of course, but it would still come into existence in the late fifties or early sixties. However, that slow creation gave the Grussians more opportunities to spy on the program, and learn of its possible use for warfare purposes. This would cause a feedback loop, where the North mammalians would hear that the Grrussians were trying to make a bomb, and so they would need on in order to defend against them, which would then galvanize the Grussians to continue spying so that North Mammalia would not beat them to the punch and bomb them into oblivion.
The amount of spying over the years leading up to the bomb's creation, coupled with Grussia's own bomb announcement kicked anti-communist sentiment in North Mammalia into high gear. And as it would turn out, those fears wouldn't be entirely unfounded due to the number of communist spies and infiltrators that would be exposed during Canidy's'government cleanup, though it would be Canidy's cool head that would prevent North Mammalia from going into full-on armed conflict with Grussia, most notably during the Mewban missile crisis.
Events would largely play out the same going forward, including the Saviniet Union's ultimate collapse, which would leave a rather large chip on Grussia and Sibearia's shoulder towards the NMU despite their move toward democracy. Panda would share a similar sentiment, but with the slow push toward balkanization...or rather 'balcaninization', (God these puns are killing me...) the various groups setting themselves up to be the new governments in said future nations have mixed relationships with the west, the more democratic supporting nations being more open to working with them, and the communist hold outs maintaining that dislike of the west.
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