Since 1991, all of these creations of the ‘Brest-Litovsk moment’, and more, have come to be regarded as legitimate members of the family of nations. Now as then Poland and the Baltic states look to protectors in the West. Today they are keen members of an American-dominated NATO and the European Union, in which Germany is the dominant force. If they are not more anxious about their security, it has much to do with the early twenty-first-century map of Eurasia, on which Russian power is even more drastically circumscribed than it was at Brest.
