You’re still wilfully ignoring even your own source. Which says, itself,
“the changes in Eastern Europe and the German unification process must not lead to an ‘impairment of Soviet security interests.’
SOVIET INTERESTS. Not RF, not Muscovia.
“assurances throughout 1990 and into 1991 about protecting Soviet security interests and including the USSR in new European security structures. The two issues were related but not the same.”
So, there was only a focus on the USSR integrity being maintained despite unification of the GDR and DDR.
Again, because your lies need to be countered, even your own source is telling everyone that I am right and you’re a Putin shilling liar.
Joe Biden admitted in 1997:
“I think the one place where the greatest consternation would be caused in the short term, for admission – having nothing to do with the merit and preparedness of the countries coming in – would be to admit the Baltic states now, in terms of NATO-Russian, US-Russian relations,” Biden said.
“And if there was ever anything that was going to tip the balance, were it to be tipped, in terms of a vigorous and hostile reaction, I don’t mean military, in Russia, it would be that,” he added.
When the Senate approved NATO expansion in 1998, it was condemned by none other than leading cold warrior George Kennan, the architect of US containment policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan warned in prescient words published by the New York Times:
I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.
You and your fellow Zeepers and war pigs have thought for decades that you could sh$t all over the Russians and they'd take it.
And, that is especially annoying from the British a-holes that stir the pot and want to hide behind our military when there are consequences of NATO aggression.
It's idiots with your mentality that have us closer to WW III and nuclear war than we ever were during the Cold War.