German question
Besides resolving the "German question", Kennan argued that "program A" would, by arranging that the remaining Red Army forces in Germany be supplied by sea, remove the principal Soviet pretext for occupying Poland and would ensure that a reunified Germany would become a "third force" in the Cold War aligned neither with Moscow nor Washington. 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.