Every nation has geopolitical goals. These are basically goals that every nation wants to/needs to maintain and/or achieve. Example: OTL's America wants to ensure that another superpower does not arise. ATL's America wants to end the Cold War by significantly bringing down Russian mediocre animosity. However, this achieving this would mean a new Cold War would start with France, which the reason that all this is summed up into one goal: Bring down any competition or nations with the possibility to challenge America.