This is a very appropiate place for some very relevant central European post-WWII history about German reunification and Austrian neutrality, as Austria is not an "ally" of the US like some comments in here allege.

Everybody knows post-WWII Germany was occupied by a bunch of different Allied powers, France, UK, US and the USSR.

Out of those occupations emerged the Cold War split with two very separate, and opposting Germanys, two militant blocks in the form of first NATO and then the Warsaw Pact.

What very few people seem to remember: Austria was in a very similar place back then, occupied by all major allied powers. Yet Austria didn't end up as a frontline of the Cold War with two halfes antagonizing each other, instead it regained sovereignity already back in the 50s, how did that happen?

It happened because Austria took on a offer by Stalin for such a reunification, all Stalin wanted was that Austria remained neutral, and wouldn't host foreign troops. That was the basis for removing all foreign troops from Austria in the 50s, none have gone back since then, and Austria hasn't joined any military alliance like NATO either.

Worked well enough for Austria, while Germany had the very same offer on the table back then, to this day called the "Stalin note". Konrad Adenauer, first chancellor of West Germany, refused Stalins offer back then arguing it would leave too many Germans with too good of an opinion of Russia.

While Cold Warriors to this day argue the Stalin Note was all just a nefarious evil ploy by Stalin to somehow later backstab the "Free Democratic World", as if Austria didn't and doesn't serve as a very big counter case in point to this day.

And because of that nonsense we spent half a century with two different Germanys, families forced apart not by any wall, but by a political decission in West German Bonn, by people who prefered a "Westintegration" for the central European state of Germany over getting along with our Eastern European neighbours.

Sounds crass? Not at all, just look up Adenauer's actions and statements during the Nazi times, he used to endorse Hitler, he used to lick Nazi ass when they came for his pensions.

Look up Willy Brand's side-hustle as informant for the US, to this day he's considered the most renowed and "best" allegedly "leftist" (Social Democrat) chancellor of Germany, a paid American agent working for American interests.

For the same reason West Germany also ended up on all the wrong sides of history, it supported Apartheid South Africa, gave them nukes, to this day it supports Israel's genocide, also helped them get nukes. That's the "good" Germany that survived, the one that beat up and killed its own protesters for Middle Eastern dictators.

Meanwhile Austria has been trucking along just fine with its neutrality, even tho that's where Hitler actually came from, and even tho that Stalin offer for neutrality was supposed to be such a nasty trap.

As somebody who has lived on all three sides of that Cold War I do not think long-term history will judge the First World kindly for this, mostly because said history will likely be written by the second and third world.