Twilight Struggle is an interesting one. I don’t think it is trying to simulate the Cold War, it’s simulating two American strategists simulating the Cold War, where both of them agree on the domino theory of the time.
The decision to have the triggering of Defcon 1 as a loss condition is an interesting one, and very deliberate. I’m not sure if viewing everything through an American lens is deliberate, or an artefact of the designers’ biases.