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Why does Kennan believe the Soviet Union poses a threat to the United States?

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Kennan argued that a German "third force" in the Cold War would pose no danger to the United States, while depriving the Soviet Union of reparations from Germany and would be more destabilizing to Eastern Europe than to Western Europe.
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