The Three-Sided Cold War was a tense period of diplomatic stress which involved the United States, China, and Russia as competing superpowers. The "bloodless conflict" began at the end of World War III, following the dissolution of the Neo-British Imperium (see ). Territorial disputes involving the allocation of the newly acquired, previously British, colonies nearly spilled into Total War. Reaching its climax in the 2060s, the conflict became a Four-Sided Cold War between the United States, the European Union, the PRC, and the Russian Federation. The commonly cited timeframe for this period is 2033-2072, ending with the political collapse of Moscow and Beijing. Following the Cold War was the First Interplanetary War (or World War IV), fought between the rising Nigerian Empire, Europe, an