I read a couple articles on German unification, and during the schism of unifying Germany, many European leaders had expressed large concern and frustration towards German unification, out of fears that Germany would become militant again and use it’s economic power to take over Europe. This was mainly expressed by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. And while the United States kept the Germans in NATO, only 20% of Germans supported staying in NATO immediately after unification. Quite ironically, the Soviet Union supported German unification in order to panic the Europeans to kick Germany from NATO. Assuming the events of 1989-90 were different, and the new German state felt diplomatically isolated and pressured enough and decided to establish close diplomatic/political relations with Russia, how would European politics differ from IRL?