Story Idea Thread: post your ideas here!

I had a dumb idea a while back for a story in which a secret and genuine love affair between heads of state (specifically a Soviet General Secretary modelled on Alexander Lebed and a female Indian PM - not Indira, someone much younger and completely fictional) is played for drama amidst an international crisis, with American agents being able to use the affair as leverage 

But now I have a dumb idea for a black comedy in which a future US president has an affair with Kim Yo Jong (pic related), who has become leader of North Korea after her brother had an unfortunate heart attack, and the Secret Service and their DPRK counterparts are working overtime to keep the whole thing a secret

Here's my 1983 World War idea (this is copied mostly from a post I did at alternatehistory.com):
Midnight In The Abyss
-In addition to Representative Larry McDonald, Senators Jesse Helms and Steve Symms and Representative Carroll Hubbard also die on Korean Air Lines Flight 007. This increases tensions between the US and Soviet Union.
-Tensions worsen between the two countries and their allies during September of 1983, which is noted as part of Operation Ryan (the Soviets' military intelligence program to detect signs of a first strike by the US).
-Then, on October 9th, 1983, during a visit to Rangoon to lay a wreath at the Martyrs' Mausoleum to commemorate Aung San, one of the founders of Burma (he was assassinated in 1947), South Korean president Chun Doo-Wan is killed when a bomb concealed in the roof of the Mausoleum explodes shortly after he arrives (IOTL, it was detonated early by mistake--ITTL, it detonates on time). The subsequent Burmese investigation of the bombing reveals the North Korean involvement in the bombing (as per OTL) and, as a result, tensions begin rising between North and South Korea (and the US, as well). China essentially breaks off all ties with North Korea as a result.
-In response to the increasing tensions in the Koreas, the US decides to call up troops to back up South Korea. When the Soviets hear of this, they assume that it's part of a plot to attack the Soviet Union (as per Operation RYAN) and also start calling up some of their troops.
-Then, the twin bombings of the US and French barracks in Beirut occur like OTL. In response, the US joins France in bombing the alleged perpetrators (this is noted by the Soviets as another sign). This is followed by the US invasion of Grenada, which is seen as another checkmark for Ryan.
-When the Able Archer exercise starts, the Soviets take this as a sign that NATO is about to attack, and decide to attack first.

Here's a long one-
A Karabakh conflict leads to a NATO-Russia confrontation
Starting back in 1999-NATO and Russian troops engage each other in Kosovo, setting the tone for a new Cold War early on, 
Fast forward to 2020
Azerbaijan invades the Karabakh like OTL, only they ignore ceasefire attempts from Russia and decide to take the whole region. One thing leads to another and Russia stages a coup in Baku, leading to a split in the government and open Turkish intervention. Turkish and Russian forces engage each other in Azerbaijan and Aermenia. This leads to NATO blockading Kalinangrad, as well as prompting US intervention as Russian troops cross into Turkey proper. Seeing this happening, the Russians launch a partial invasion of the Baltics and Poland to secure their links with Kalinangrad as well as stop a percieved invasion of the exclave. NATO and Russia clash in what is to be known as the War of 2020. 

Optional PODs
-Lebad is elected in '96 after Yeltsin has a heart attack, leading to "great power Russia" earlier
-No COVID so the big Azeri attack happens in July rather than September 2020
-Belerus is part of Russia so going across going across Lithuania is the best option, or Belerus has access to Kalinangrad in return for hosting a "corridor"
-Russia bought combat drones in the 2000s because they couldn't buy aircraft (see:Iran)
-Russia never left Cuba or returned
-NATO is much better armed due to Cold War II being a thing earlier (CATO/STOBAR QEs, M8s and Crusaders)

I’m open to it.

Another TL idea I came up with is After the USSA. That is, an unofficial sequel to the AH anthology Back in the USSA, which explores an "inverted Cold War" scenario where the US undergoes a communist revolution, with Tsarist Russia enacting constitutional reforms and the United Kingdom remaining a global empire that retains its superpower status.

With Socialist America eventually collapsing and capitalism sweeping the globe, it seems as if a bright twenty-first century lies ahead. Alas, this is not to be, with many of the perilous themes that kicked into overdrive IOTL also arising here. Post-socialist America being wracked with corruption, cronyism, and poverty under the rule of a shady semi-dictator who bullies Mexico and Central America, in hopes of salvaging the prestige America once enjoyed. A declining Great Britain grappling with inept militarism, mass-offshoring, ever-growing wealth concentration, and "Woke" activism across dominions that have become increasingly critical of the empire and Western liberalism as a whole. Tsarist Russia threatening to overtake the British as global superpower, as left-wing cultural drifts in the Western World drive further rifts with the increasingly conservative Eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific, the latter having also experienced a capitalist miracle that threatens to shift the balance of power back to the East, after four centuries of worldwide Western domination. Clearly, they've got quite a century to look forward to.

I bet you could probably get away with just two PODs. The first of course being things go different in Wuhan and perhaps drone striking another official at the same time as Soleimani.