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Eastern European youth may be culturally Americanised or Westernised. The West has tremendous pull, soft power.
Politically is another story,
especially if the population is mostly old,
and if most of the cosmopolitan liberals have moved to the West.
Some anti-Russian countries will always be pro-Western/anti-Russian.
Except for Poland, which has its reasons to be militaristic, most countries join NATO for political convenience, to save money.
The Americans are expected to do everything, but that does not mean that they will.
Even anti-Russian Eastern European countries are discovering this, or will discover this.
But I think that Poland is growing and the US is pulling back,
and many countries/people are disillusioned by NATO and the mess in Ukraine.
And some countries like Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria are flexible, not strongly pro-Western.
The countries that are fed by/dependent on Russian gas and uranium may have reason to be flexible.
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