AHC: Have NATO dissolved

Seeing as its raison d'etre no longer existed, NATO gets disbanded in 1992.

The raison d'entre was "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down". That formula still works following 1992.

More seriously, the extension of the US nuclear umbrella over much of Europe through NATO is the greatest anti-proliferation policy ever enacted by the western powers. NATO keeps the European membership of the nuclear club limited to the US, UK, France and Russia.

If you were the President of Poland (or another former Warsaw Pact nation) as a neutral/non-aligned country still next to Russia, would you forgo developing a nuclear arsenal?
 

Nick P

Donor
That’s a pretty big understatement. This is like Hitler deciding to scrap the Wehrmacht, SS, and Gestapo on September 1st, 1939, releasing the Jews and paying reparations to them, then resigning with a call for new free and fair elections.

Are you criticising my entire post, or just that one selected line about the former Soviet states selling old nuclear missiles for good trade deals?
 
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