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...time when there will be no Warsaw Pact and no NATO...
...Soviet military man, I am concerned by some actions of the U.S. I am saying this not to offend anyone but so that the American public will know. First, the U.S. and NATO are still pursuing a position-of-strength policy toward the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. We have elaborated a new defensive doctrine and put it into practice. We are unilaterally reducing our armed forces by 500,000 and have reduced them by 220,000 already. But the U.S. and NATO have not introduced a new doctrine. They are still guided by flexible response and nuclear deterrence...
...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...