How would you realistically prevent NATO expansion into Eastern Europe after the Cold War

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Have the Euro succeed beyond expectations as the UK joins in leading to a gradual rift between Europe and North America during the 2000s and 2010s
 

jsb

oberdada said:
Actually you need just one NATO country to veto expansion.
I have mentioned Turkey, but Germany is also a potential candidate, if the 1994 federal election just goes a little different, with Social Democrats and/or Greens in the government.
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Would Germany in 1994 have been willing to make such a hard diplomatic stand and veto NATO membership so soon after reunification? Would it not lead to somebody simply hinting a question about if Germany was going backward into the dark past so soon after reunification and the final treaty and the end of the occupation power had left and Germany would fold instantly and follow what ever the other western powers agreed?
 
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oberdada

jsb said:
Would Germany in 1994 have been willing to make such a hard diplomatic stand and veto NATO membership so soon after reunification? Would it not lead to somebody simply hinting a question about if Germany was going backward into the dark past so soon after reunification and the final treaty and the end of the occupation power had left and Germany would fold instantly and follow what ever the other western powers agreed?
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It would be an equally viable position that extending NATO eastwards would violate the spirit of the 4+2 agreement that explicitly forbade NATO aligned units to be stationed in the former GDR.
Therefore agreeing to a NATO extension would be in violation of the de facto peace treaty and therefore a going backwards in time.
 
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