I feel like I’m missing something here. US doing that would have made them much stronger against China. I mean just imagine how much more robust the European economy would be if all the gas going to China was going right to Europe.

Though in typing that out I may have answered my own question. Is it really just because US wanted to European market to themselves? This seems incredibly short sighted.

  • doriangray11@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    NATO in the post-Soviet era has mainly three purposes:

    1. To maintain US dominance over Europe
    2. To keep Russian influence OUT of Europe
    3. To control Germany and prevent it from becoming a competitive imperialist power again

    If Russia were brought into NATO, Europe would eventually gravitate towards it over time instead of the US. So yes, you answered your own question.