"Not one inch east" became 13 new Eastern European states members in NATO in 7 years. The war could and SHOULD have been avoided, but NATO with the puppet Jens Stoltenberg and the Biden administration wanted war. NATO is not a peace-force. Nato is lies, expansions, death and destruction!
Promoting a more open, transparent and accountable North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. 2 January 2018. Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major and Woerner.
On the 12 December 2017 the National Security Archive at George Washington University posted online 30 declassified US, Soviet, German, British and French documents revealing a torrent of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991.
Some of the documents have been publicly available for several years, others have been revealed as a result of Freedom of Information requests for the study. See the briefing here.
Watch the video below. The war could and SHOULD have been avoided, but NATO, with its puppet Jens Stoltenberg and the Biden administration (the globalist) wanted the war! (red.adm)
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Not one inch eastward!
US Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 9 February 1990 was only part of a cascade of similar assurances.
As the authors, Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton argue: “The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels”.
The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen”.
During the discussions to re-unify East and West Germany, the Western parties sought to defuse Moscow’s fears that a reunified state in the heart of Europe would present a threat to the Soviet Union. Gorbachev only accepted German reunification—over which the Soviet Union had a legal right to veto—because he received assurances that NATO would not expand after he withdrew his forces from Eastern Europe from James Baker, President George H.W.
Bush, West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British foreign minister Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO secretary-general Manfred Woerner.
In February, George H. W. Bush’s secretary of state, James Baker, assured his Soviet counterpart, Eduard Shevardnadze, that in a post-Cold War Europe NATO would no longer be belligerent – “less of a military organization, much more of a political one, would have no need for independent capability”.
Nonetheless, Baker promised Shevardnadze “iron-clad guarantees that NATO’s jurisdiction or forces would not move eastward”. On the same day in Moscow, he famously told the Soviet General Secretary that the alliance would not move “one inch to the east”.
The following day, February 10, 1990, Helmut Kohl, the future chancellor of a united Germany, repeated the same thought to Gorbachev, even as they disagreed on other issues. “We believe that NATO should not expand the sphere of its activity. We have to find a reasonable resolution. I correctly understand the security interests of the Soviet Union, and I realize that you, Mr. General Secretary, and the Soviet leadership will have to clearly explain what is happening to the Soviet people,” Kohl said.
“Not one inch east” became 13 new Eastern European states members in NATO in 7 years
The promises not to expand NATO only lasted until 1997, however, when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary were invited into the alliance. In total, 13 Eastern European states have become NATO members since then.
Gorbachev and subsequently Putin have frequently bemoaned the West’s broken promise, with the latter insisting that it fundamentally undermined the fragile trust between an internationally retreating Russia and an ascendant United States.
Nonetheless, NATO and senior Western officials have continued to claim that there was no such official promise. None of the assurances of non-expansion were included in any treaty documents, as NATO makes clear in its official explanation on its website: “NATO allies take decisions by consensus and these are recorded. There is no record of any such decision having been taken by NATO. Personal assurances, from NATO leaders, cannot replace alliance consensus and do not constitute a formal NATO agreement”.
Former US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul labelled the idea of a reneged promise a “myth”in an interview in 2016. Other experts have labelled Russian grievances as a case of “false memory syndrome”.
With the exception of RT in Russia and a handful of online opinion articles (see below), no major media outlet has so far reported on the release of these newly declassified documents. In ending the Cold War by breaking promises to Gorbachev, the attitude of the revived Russia of today should not come as a surprise.
As the Russian journalist and columnist for Bloomberg Leonid Bershidsky concludes it is now “highly unlikely that any successor to Putin will simply cast aside the broken promise story, which is by now embedded in the Russian government’s post-Soviet DNA. For years, perhaps decades, maintaining a confrontation with Russia will be easier than rebuilding trust”. End text NATOWATCH.
The Biden administration (the globalists) and NATO wanted war
As the war now enters its third year with more than a million dead people, it is worth recalling how it all began. I will leave this to be explained by NATO’s earlier chief, or more correctly, the globalist puppet Jens Stoltenberg. In this video he proudly and stupidly states the following;
“Putin sent a draft treaty that he wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was a precondition to not invade Ukraine. Of course, we didn’t sign that. So he went to war to prevent NATO close to his borders.” Jens Stoltenberg.
So there we have it, straight from the source. The war could and SHOULD have been avoided, but NATO, with the evil and stupid puppet Jens Stoltenberg (a bad combination) in front, and the Biden administration (the globalists) chose to ignore Russia’s red lines once again and continued its expansion. So – who is the tyrants?
Here you can see Jens Stoltenbergs X-post of the 24th of February 2025, where he states the following. We did all we could to prevent Russia’s invasion, but we could not give up #Ukraine’s right to be free. Ukraine’s future is their own, but it’s also in our hands. We must do all we can to support those who give all every day. Volodymyr, President@ZelenskyyUa my friend, Slava
The aforementioned about NATO is school curriculum!
The aforementioned about NATO is school curriculum! We learned about the pact between NATO/UN and Russia in elementary school in Norway. This is historical knowledge that has clearly been forgotten by some people, while others due to constant fear- and war mongering from the MSM owned by the globalists and funded by USAID (formerly the Biden/Democrat administrations) have completely lost it – and the western propaganda works.
Some people actual believe that Putin is an evil tyrant who intends to go to war against the entire world. This is an idiotic and illogical claim! The truth is that we should fear the people using and running NATO to reach their goals, which is to rob and gain control over other countries’ natural resources. War is money grab in every aspect. NATO got blood on its hands. NATO dropping lies and bombs.
You might also want to watch this video. “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has exposed what could be one of the greatest geopolitical betrayals of our time. In April 2022, Russia and Ukraine were HOURS away from signing a full peace agreement—until BORIS JOHNSON stepped in. Lavrov claims Ukraine was READY to sign, but they were “forbidden” by London and Washington”. Jim Ferguson
To conclude: NATO is not a peace-force! NATO is expansions, lies, money laundering and grabbing, death and destruction! NATO is an inhumane power apparatus controlled by the elites, that also controls the EU, WHO and WEF. They should all be dissolved ASAP.
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Promoting a more open, transparent and accountable North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. 2 January 2018. Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major and Woerner.
This post has gathered information and text from the document Promoting a more transparent and accountable NATO, made by NATO Watch Observatory. Editor: Dr. Ian Davis.
NATO’s Chamber of Secrets and a Cursed Child
On the 12 December 2017 the National Security Archive at George Washington University posted online 30 declassified US, Soviet, German, British and French documents revealing a torrent of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991.
Some of the documents have been publicly available for several years, others have been revealed as a result of Freedom of Information requests for the study. See the briefing here.
How Gorbachev was misled over assurances against NATO expansion
Not one inch eastward!
US Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 9 February 1990 was only part of a cascade of similar assurances.
As the authors, Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton argue: “The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels”.
During the discussions to re-unify East and West Germany, the Western parties sought to defuse Moscow’s fears that a reunified state in the heart of Europe would present a threat to the Soviet Union. Gorbachev only accepted German reunification—over which the Soviet Union had a legal right to veto—because he received assurances that NATO would not expand after he withdrew his forces from Eastern Europe from James Baker, President George H.W.
Bush, West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British foreign minister Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO secretary-general Manfred Woerner.
In February, George H. W. Bush’s secretary of state, James Baker, assured his Soviet counterpart, Eduard Shevardnadze, that in a post-Cold War Europe NATO would no longer be belligerent – “less of a military organization, much more of a political one, would have no need for independent capability”.
Nonetheless, Baker promised Shevardnadze “iron-clad guarantees that NATO’s jurisdiction or forces would not move eastward”. On the same day in Moscow, he famously told the Soviet General Secretary that the alliance would not move “one inch to the east”.
The following day, February 10, 1990, Helmut Kohl, the future chancellor of a united Germany, repeated the same thought to Gorbachev, even as they disagreed on other issues. “We believe that NATO should not expand the sphere of its activity. We have to find a reasonable resolution. I correctly understand the security interests of the Soviet Union, and I realize that you, Mr. General Secretary, and the Soviet leadership will have to clearly explain what is happening to the Soviet people,” Kohl said.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs explains how NATO, EU and the Biden administration provoked Russia into invading Ukraine.
“Not one inch east” became 13 new Eastern European states members in NATO in 7 years
The promises not to expand NATO only lasted until 1997, however, when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary were invited into the alliance. In total, 13 Eastern European states have become NATO members since then.
Gorbachev and subsequently Putin have frequently bemoaned the West’s broken promise, with the latter insisting that it fundamentally undermined the fragile trust between an internationally retreating Russia and an ascendant United States.
Nonetheless, NATO and senior Western officials have continued to claim that there was no such official promise. None of the assurances of non-expansion were included in any treaty documents, as NATO makes clear in its official explanation on its website: “NATO allies take decisions by consensus and these are recorded. There is no record of any such decision having been taken by NATO. Personal assurances, from NATO leaders, cannot replace alliance consensus and do not constitute a formal NATO agreement”.
Former US ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul labelled the idea of a reneged promise a “myth” in an interview in 2016. Other experts have labelled Russian grievances as a case of “false memory syndrome”.
With the exception of RT in Russia and a handful of online opinion articles (see below), no major media outlet has so far reported on the release of these newly declassified documents. In ending the Cold War by breaking promises to Gorbachev, the attitude of the revived Russia of today should not come as a surprise.
As the Russian journalist and columnist for Bloomberg Leonid Bershidsky concludes it is now “highly unlikely that any successor to Putin will simply cast aside the broken promise story, which is by now embedded in the Russian government’s post-Soviet DNA. For years, perhaps decades, maintaining a confrontation with Russia will be easier than rebuilding trust”. End text NATOWATCH.
The Biden administration (the globalists) and NATO wanted war
As the war now enters its third year with more than a million dead people, it is worth recalling how it all began. I will leave this to be explained by NATO’s earlier chief, or more correctly, the globalist puppet Jens Stoltenberg. In this video he proudly and stupidly states the following;
“Putin sent a draft treaty that he wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was a precondition to not invade Ukraine. Of course, we didn’t sign that. So he went to war to prevent NATO close to his borders.” Jens Stoltenberg.
So there we have it, straight from the source. The war could and SHOULD have been avoided, but NATO, with the evil and stupid puppet Jens Stoltenberg (a bad combination) in front, and the Biden administration (the globalists) chose to ignore Russia’s red lines once again and continued its expansion. So – who is the tyrants?
The video with Jens Stoltenberg/NATO 👇
Here you can see Jens Stoltenbergs X-post of the 24th of February 2025, where he states the following. We did all we could to prevent Russia’s invasion, but we could not give up #Ukraine’s right to be free. Ukraine’s future is their own, but it’s also in our hands. We must do all we can to support those who give all every day. Volodymyr, President @ZelenskyyUa my friend, Slava
The aforementioned about NATO is school curriculum!
The aforementioned about NATO is school curriculum! We learned about the pact between NATO/UN and Russia in elementary school in Norway. This is historical knowledge that has clearly been forgotten by some people, while others due to constant fear- and war mongering from the MSM owned by the globalists and funded by USAID (formerly the Biden/Democrat administrations) have completely lost it – and the western propaganda works.
Some people actual believe that Putin is an evil tyrant who intends to go to war against the entire world. This is an idiotic and illogical claim! The truth is that we should fear the people using and running NATO to reach their goals, which is to rob and gain control over other countries’ natural resources. War is money grab in every aspect. NATO got blood on its hands. NATO dropping lies and bombs.
You might also want to watch this video. “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has exposed what could be one of the greatest geopolitical betrayals of our time. In April 2022, Russia and Ukraine were HOURS away from signing a full peace agreement—until BORIS JOHNSON stepped in. Lavrov claims Ukraine was READY to sign, but they were “forbidden” by London and Washington”. Jim Ferguson
Also see:
John Dobson, The Perfidious West: Why Putin’s suspicion is justified, Sunday Guardian, 23 December 2017
Andrew Bacevich, When Washington Assured Russia NATO Would Not Expand, The American Conservative, 20 December 2017
Eric Margolis, No to Eastward NATO Expansion? ‘Sorry Chump, You Didn’t Have It in Writing’,Common Dreams, 17 December 2017
Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn’t Move Past East German Border, National Interest, 12 December 2017
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