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.

  • @sub_ubi@lemmy.ml
    21•1 year ago

    While Secretary General, Ismay is also credited as having been the first person to say that the purpose of NATO was “to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,”[2] a saying that has since become a common way to describe the dynamics of NATO.[3][4]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Ismay,_1st_Baron_Ismay

    That idiom notwithstanding, I agree it’s odd that NATO still exists after Yeltsin was “elected.”

    • @rigor
      5•1 year ago

      As others have pointed out, Soviet became Russian, American always wanted in, and NATO is definitely keeping Germany down