I have a certain fondness for the idea of visegrad admitting austria and becoming a strong counter-EU but oh man oh man oh manhttps://factsdomatter.co.uk/2018/02/15/reintroducing-liberty/ …
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events like molotov-ribbentrop and warsaw pact made this dynamic explicit but the dynamic is inherent in russia, not the soviet union, and did not vanish with its dissolution
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western europe remains free from russian hegemony by virtue of its status as an american protectorate, not because it can maintain independence by force of arms anymore
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so it needs to become a great power in its own right if it is to survive american decline, the russians are not as laissez faire with their vassal states
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EU federalization could accomplish this but seems impossible, strong intermarium in symbiosis with the west more realistic avenue
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...save the Warsaw pact times
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warsaw pact fits cleanly into this, russia establishes a series of buffer states east of the elbe, america does the same with marshall plan and NATO
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the idea was always that if a real shooting war broke out sans full nuclear exchange both russia and america would be fighting in europe. not good for europe!
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ussr collapses, russia is weaker than it was, the dividing line moves east. seizure of crimea and low-intensity conflict for hegemony over ukraine is the same basic dynamic
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