I feel like I’m missing something here. US doing that would have made them much stronger against China. I mean just imagine how much more robust the European economy would be if all the gas going to China was going right to Europe.
Though in typing that out I may have answered my own question. Is it really just because US wanted to European market to themselves? This seems incredibly short sighted.
NATO in the post-Soviet era has mainly three purposes:
- To maintain US dominance over Europe
- To keep Russian influence OUT of Europe
- To control Germany and prevent it from becoming a competitive imperialist power again
If Russia were brought into NATO, Europe would eventually gravitate towards it over time instead of the US. So yes, you answered your own question.
How would Europe naturally gravitate towards Russia in that case? Is it because of Russia’s size and access to natural resources?
How/why does NATO benefit the US over the other member states? How is NATO suppressing Germany even though they are a member state themselves?
Big industrial powerhouse with lots of oil and natural resources that’s connected via land, not across a whole ass ocean.
