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...collapse of the old regimes and the astonishing changes under way in the Soviet Union open prospects for a Europe of cooperation in which the Iron Curtain disappears, people and goods move freely across frontiers, NATO and the Warsaw Pact evolve from military powerhouses into merely formal alliances, and the threat of war steadily fades. They also raise the question of German reunification, an issue for which politicians in the West or, for that matter, Moscow have yet to formulate strategies. Finally, should protest get out of hand, there is the risk of dissolution into chaos, sooner or later necessitating...
Ulam spoke on the reasons for the neutrality pact between Germany and England, arguing that it was possible that if Hitler had not made the pact he would not have started the war. Hitler's generals were not willing to fight another two front-war after losing the previous...
...this way. If the U.S., as you say, pursues a policy of strength and, at the same time, key Warsaw Pact members are changing their view of the world, including their relationship to the Soviet Union, that must have some impact on military thinking...
...posing a hypothetical question. As of now this has not happened. In Poland and Hungary certain internal processes are going on, but these countries have made clear that they will remain members of the Warsaw Pact, with all their obligations. We have dropped the idea of attaching ideology to international relations. Hungary and Poland are members of the alliance because it meets their national interests...
Germany itself might challenge that. Even without reunification or major changes in the present alliance system, West Germany is set to become the overwhelming economic power of Middle Europe. It is already the most important Western trading partner of all seven Warsaw Pact countries. And the slow disintegration of Comecon, the Moscow-based council that brokers East bloc trade, coupled with Eastern Europe's desperate need for capital and expertise, will open up enormous new economic opportunities that West Germany is poised -- financially, geographically and politically -- to exploit. "Between the two superpowers, there shall be a union of European states...