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3. A Germany that would look to befriend Eastern Europe to counterbalance it's frenemies in Western and Central Europe and almost certainly succeed, since those also are much more pro-US and anti-Russia then the rest of the EU.
Hell if you REALLY want to frighten everyone else, have Germany maintain or expand on her CW era force sizes, from a fear that she'll be victim to French or English aggressions otherwise. Or even better, have her withdraw from the NNPT and then immediately detonate a test warhead. Assuming she can't get ironclad American guarantees regarding protection from her "NATO allies"
West Germany-Polish discrepancy on the question of GDR-Polish border would be just enough. Declaration about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1970) reconsideration in case of reunification would create enormous pressure in the Eastern Europe.
So we do have another POD: what if West Germany actually promised to semi-forcibly reconsider border treaty with Poland in case of reunification? (Imagine IRL OTL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Polish_Border_Treaty_(1990) went badly).
So, FRG declares an intention to redraw it's eastern border in case of reunification, shit hits the fan, Thatcher and Mitterand/Chirac begin their 'an old enemy is returning' speeches and also there is an opposition within the Soviet Union (patriotic Yeltsin wants to oust benevolent Gorby). More of this, economic reforms of the Czech Velvet Revolution fails somehow along with Czech wealth status diminishung - thus wave of 'Ostalgie' hits the Eastern Europe and severely disrupts the reunification momentum in GDR.
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