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Quote: As an inducement for agreeing to German unification, Mr. Baker offered what he called “ironclad guarantees that NATO’s jurisdiction or forces would not move eastward,” according to a declassified memorandum recording the discussion.
It’s nyt, so I know you war mongering freaks will appreciate it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/us/politics/russia-ukraine-james-baker.html
These assertions were sharply challenged at the time by other observers, including former U.S. policymakers who played a direct role in the German reunification process. George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, and James A. Baker, who served as president, national security adviser, and secretary of state in 1990 respectively, all firmly denied that the topic of extending NATO membership to former Warsaw Pact countries (other than East Germany) even came up during the negotiations with Moscow on German reunification, much less that the United States made a ‘‘pledge’’ not to pursue it. In 1997, Philip Zelikow, who in 1990 was a senior official on the National Security Council (NSC) staff responsible for German reunification issues, maintained that the United States made no commitment at all about the future shape of NATO, apart from some specific points about eastern Germany that were codified in the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany signed in September 1990. ‘‘The option of adding new members to NATO,’’ Zelikow wrote, was ‘‘not foreclosed by the deal actually made in 1990.’’
And yet, even Gorbachev and all other players in the discussions make mention that NO assurances were made.
Go back to whatever 'Poo-tin it in' discussion group you have where you talk your Russian lies and propaganda to sleep at night, and remember to lick your shirtless Putin poster you have hanging on your wall.
“As an inducement for agreeing to German unification, Mr. Baker offered what he called “ironclad guarantees that NATO’s jurisdiction or forces would not move eastward,” according to a declassified memorandum recording the discussion.”
Absent a congressional bill, Baker could only commit the Bush I administration; he had no authority to commit the US government beyond that. Thus, the Baker commitment ended when Bill Clinton was sworn in as president in January, 1993.