and more:
“..In doing so, the West didn’t break any treaties, but some participants were concerned nevertheless. Years later, Genscher said that the expansion was just fine from a formally legal point of view. But it was impossible to deny, he said, that it was counter to the spirit of the understandings reached in 1990....”
Any “understandings” in 1990 were with the Soviet Union. Then the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the Russian people went on a ten year vodka bender that makes our opioid epidemic look mild. Russia is back on its feet again, but Russia promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence. Russia is not the Soviet Union and it is not in the USA’s interests to let them pretend.