[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Completely OT regarding

She also said that "the UK to leave the EU would be economic suicide".

I take it that after 1945 it was predominantly the US that had the say what happened in (western) Germany, and as we know Stalin proposed to make Germany a unified neutral country withdrawing all foreign troops. The Stalin note.

The Soviet Union sought to use reunification as a way to push Germany out of NATO into neutrality, removing nuclear weapons from its territory.
As we know now it was the US/Kennedy who would not have it.

"West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Western Allies characterised Stalin's move as an aggressive action that attempted to stall the reintegration of West Germany. However, there was later a debate on whether a chance for reunification had been missed. Six years after the exchange, two West German ministers, Thomas Dehler and Gustav Heinemann, blamed Adenauer for not having explored the chance of reunification."

In 1989 it was Thatcher being against a reunification, but again it was not her who had the final say in these things
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/poli...wall-1.4119052

"Fascinating, Captain" (left eyebrow goes ooopwards...) Never have heard of this before.