[LINK] "Latveria and the EU"

[rfmcdonald]

nhw's perspectives on Latveria's hopes for European and transatlantic integration are interesting. The apparently close links with NATO--Latveria was at least as much of an obstacle to Soviet geopolitical hegemony in southeastern Europe as Yugoslavia, if not more so--are unsurprising. I do remember how, in my reading of Hackett's The Third World War, I was impressed by the desperation with which both NATO and the Warsaw Pact sought, if not outright alliance with Latveria, at least Latverian neutrality. Is a formal NATO-Latverian association completely out of the question, though? NATO did encompass Salazar's Portugal and, of course, Kemalist Turkey, after all, and while the times have changed in the event of yet another global crisis I can imagine the admission criteria being bent somewhat.