WI NATO was dissolved?

WI, after the Soviet Union collapsed, the nations of Europe agreed that there is no point to continuing NATO and agreed to end the treaty?
 
Well who takes care of Eastern Europe becomes the question. If the lost of NATO leads to a stiffer more independent Europe, they might want to bring EE into their sphere of control. Also does the EU give security guarantees to the new EE democracies? Cause in the ten years or so for the Russians to sort themselves it might be nice to have something like that.
 
Also does the EU give security guarantees to the new EE democracies? Cause in the ten years or so for the Russians to sort themselves it might be nice to have something like that.

Only to those which are part of EU itself.
 
The UN would likely intervene in Yugoslavia. Kosovo would still be a part of Serbia. Georgia would be more ostracized. (South Ossetia and Abkhazia may be recognized by more countries- after all, the US wouldn't pay the Caucasus as much attention, and Europe may look askance on Saakashvili's treatment of the opposition.) Russia/US relations would likely be somewhat easier. Afghanistan would have more of an ad hoc international force, like in the Persian Gulf War or the Sinai. If the US redeploys its troops out of Europe, it might have had more troops available to send to Iraq, but also it might have lost a small bit more soldiers, due to no military hospitals in Europe.
 

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The UN would likely intervene in Yugoslavia. Kosovo would still be a part of Serbia. Georgia would be more ostracized. (South Ossetia and Abkhazia may be recognized by more countries- after all, the US wouldn't pay the Caucasus as much attention, and Europe may look askance on Saakashvili's treatment of the opposition.) Russia/US relations would likely be somewhat easier. Afghanistan would have more of an ad hoc international force, like in the Persian Gulf War or the Sinai. If the US redeploys its troops out of Europe, it might have had more troops available to send to Iraq, but also it might have lost a small bit more soldiers, due to no military hospitals in Europe.

A lot of the troops forward deployed in Germany and Italy among other places where sent to Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place.

That is the whole point about being forward deployed to begin with. If something comes up, you already have assets in position to go in and deal with it, not to wait a month to assemble a force stateside.
 
No NATO might stop the Cold War from continuing.

Well, I'm not sure I consider the current situation quite the same as the Cold War, but you do have a point. The continued existence of NATO with the USA as its major power, and then NATO's unnecessary expansion into eastern europe and even the former Soviet Union, only empowed Russian nationalists and ended all possibility that Russia could be coaxed into a general post-cold war european arrangement. In my mind, NATO should have been abandoned sometime in the early 1990's at the latest.
 

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OTOH, now that a large number of the former Warsaw Pact nations are a part of NATO, this gives the organization a lot of additional forces to use despite the reduction in force sizes by everyone after the end of the Cold War.

Given the fact that even the Ukraine is looking or has thought in some circles about joining the treaty, this would mean that instead of Soviet tanks invading Germany, everyone else would be parked in Russia's own back yard, with much greater control of the Baltic and heavy domination of the Black Sea as well.
 
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