Adenauer’s Move
The past month’s events in Eastern Europe are the initial phase in a major historical process. This process, if it continues to develop in the direction set by its initial phase, will cause the breakup of “the Yalta pattern” according to which Eastern Europe has been organized as a satellite area of the Moscow-dictated Soviet Empire. That is the negative side. What, positively, would replace the Yalta pattern is not yet clear: an East European Federation balanced between Western Europe and Eurasian Russia? A collapse of the orthodox Soviet system, with a series of wars of succession? General world war?
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