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As I stated before - your thread and its content has been posted time and again and debunked time and again.
In essentially settling for a gentleman’s agreement, Mr. Gorbachev missed some important pitfalls and then failed to do anything about them. First, Mr. Kohl spoke for West Germany, not for the United States or for NATO as a whole. Second, the Soviet leader got nothing about the trans-Atlantic alliance in writing. Third, Mr. Gorbachev did not criticize Mr. Kohl publicly when he and Mr. Bush later agreed to offer only a special military status to the former East Germany instead of a pledge that NATO wouldn’t expand. Finally, he did not catch subtle signals that, by early 1990, speculative discussion in the West about NATO’s future involved the inclusion of Eastern Europe as well. Mr. Gorbachev later complained to Mr. Kohl that he felt he had fallen into a trap.
If Russia was so much better than the west then the nations the USSR occupied for 50 years would never have run to the west when the USSR fell.
In essentially settling for a gentleman’s agreement
There was never an agreement that prevented NATO from expanding east
In essentially settling for a gentleman’s agreement, Mr. Gorbachev missed some important pitfalls and then failed to do anything about them.
First, Mr. Kohl spoke for West Germany, not for the United States or for NATO as a whole. Second, the Soviet leader got nothing about the trans-Atlantic alliance in writing.
Third, Mr. Gorbachev did not criticize Mr. Kohl publicly when he and Mr. Bush later agreed to offer only a special military status to the former East Germany instead of a pledge that NATO wouldn’t expand.
Finally, he did not catch subtle signals that, by early 1990, speculative discussion in the West about NATO’s future involved the inclusion of Eastern Europe as well. Mr. Gorbachev later complained to Mr. Kohl that he felt he had fallen into a trap.
Germany, not the US nor NATO, made certain promises to Gorbachev.
Mr. Kohl chose to echo Mr. Baker, not Mr. Bush. The chancellor assured Mr. Gorbachev, as Mr. Baker had done, that “naturally NATO could not expand its territory” into East Germany. The documents available do not record Mr. Kohl using the presidential phrase — “special military status” — that the National Security Council had rushed over to him. Mr. Kohl’s foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, visiting the Kremlin as well, assured his Soviet counterpart, Eduard Shevardnadze, that “for us, it stands firm: NATO will not expand itself to the East.”
Also - Russia invaded Ukraine, which not only pushed Ukraine towards the EU and west, it pushed non aligned nations towards NATO.
originally posted by: Bassago
No the west spent $5 billion on preparations to overthrow the democratically elect president of Ukraine to put their puppets in place. This was of course to advance NATO's designs and plunder natural resources. If you doubt this ask the US State Department and Victoria Nuland. I'm sure she'll set you straight.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: Bassago
So 1,000 years later Russia still controls what other free countries can and can't do?