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Originally Posted by whswhs
I'm not sure that it's valid to assume the collapse of the Soviet Union in this timeline. It seems plausible to suppose that it wasn't independent of US policy or of who was in the White House.
I'm not seeing how Hillary Clinton gets into the Senate if her husband was never President.
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Hillary we won't argue about. But the Soviets had big problems for a long time. They seemed to have hit the limits of authoritarian growth in 1960 and never grew afterwards. When then tech came along that could have restarted economic growth, the personal computer, they rejected it as a massive security breach. The shock isn't that the USSR collapsed, the shock is how long they survived.
And with solar displacing oil in this world, Putin remains a bitter second string player.