re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Gorbachev say cool I’ll just remove our alies from a defense pact? Not likely.

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This was also said by Mikhail Gorbachev in November 2014 in an interview with the German television channel ZDF, when he stated that the data to him on the "NATO non-expansion guarantee" is a myth inflated by the press. According to Gorbachev, there could be no such guarantees when the Organization of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR existed, in principle.

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The former Soviet leader of the state and party Mikhail Gorbachev has contradicted the presentation that he was in talks about the German Association promised to forego NATO's eastward expansion been. This was not an issue in the 1990 negotiations, said Gorbachev the today's journal on ZDF. He added: "The Warsaw Pact still existed. At that time the question even arose Not."

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According to Moscow as well as Baker's notes, the famous "not one inch eastward" promise[5] about NATO's eastward expansion was made during this conversation.[6][7] The concession essentially meant that the western half of the unified Germany would be part of NATO but the eastern half would not. The US National Security Council pointed out that it would be unworkable, and the concession was later amended to state that NATO troops would not be stationed in East Germany.[7]

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Gorbachev has stated it didn't happen and stated it happened. But nothing was signed and that's the problem with saying it was agreed to because it wasn't. It would have been written down somewhere and signed by someone if it had. It might have been discussed but that's not the same as agreeing to it. People are arguing over supposed conjecture when there were actual signed documents that don't contain the language of non expansion.