In the above-mentioned conference of 16 July 1941, it was codified as policy that in order to "secure the safety of the Reich" no non-German military power would ever again be allowed west of the Urals (including non-Russian native militias), even if it meant war for the next hundred years.[1] Hitler's future successors were to be instructed of this, if necessary.[4] This was to be done to prevent any western powers hostile to Germany from conspiring against it with its eastern neighbors in the future, like the French had supposedly done with the Turks, and which the British were alleged to be doing with the Soviets.[13] No organized Russian state would also be allowed to exist west of this line, which Hitler clarified as actually meaning a line 200–300 km east of the mountains,[13] approaching the 70° east longitude line the Japanese had proposed as the westernmost limit of their own influence.