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Shortly after WW2, Stalin proposed to the Western allies the idea of a united Germany, with the condition that the resulting state would not join neither NATO nor the Warsaw Pact. Due to fears of Stalin's deal being a plot, and the threat of German communists potentially subverting the neutral country into a red whole from within, the West did not go along with said proposal. But let's suppose they do - how does a neutral, capitalist Germany affect European geopolitics, or the Cold War in general?
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