Return to interstate rivalry in Cold War Europe

ar-pharazon

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In the fifties and forties Europe was welded together under the Americans with the aim of keeping the Germans down Russians out and Americans in as well as preventing war by joining the economies of France and Germany.

What if this had never happened and some sort of European interstate competition such as before WW2 or WW1 returned--no NATO or European Union.

Would this be possible and if so how would the Soviets react to events going this way?

What could make this state of affairs possible?
 
The issue is that with Soviet forces so close, there's a strong incentive to want Europe to stick together to keep them out. I think the French could perhaps break off however.

I say have either have Adenaur's desire for a trade of West Berlin for Thuringia-Schwerin-Leipzig (solving the Falda Gap dilemma) or have the occupational zone lines be drawn slightly differently so as to give West Germany more secure boundaries.

Get Yugoslavia either NATO or NATO-aligned as well and prevent the Czechoslovak coup from happening as well.


DeGaulle looks at the map, sees the Soviets much further away than historically, and decides France can do just fine on its own.
 
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