25 Feb 2023 11:38 am
Exactly.jerrab » 25 Feb 2023, 12:27 pm » wrote: ↑ -------------------------------------------------------------Declassified documents tell the story of how American officials led the Russians to believe that no expansion would be undertaken by NATO, then later nearly doubled the size of the alliance. Russian and American transcripts and summaries of high-level meetings, posted in recent years by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, record multiple assurances in the early 1990s.Some were explicit, others implicit and subject to interpretation. They were given repeatedly in various forms to Gorbachev, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and other Russian officials by the highest American and European leaders, including President George H. W. Bush, Secretary of State James Baker, CIA Director Robert Gates, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, French President François Mitterrand, and NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner.
and then Biden under Obama committed a coup overthrowing a democracy and destabilized the region knowing full well the response Russia would have .....
and I still remember how those European governments responded with disdain back then when their government's were not subverted by the WEF and their agenda.