[tlozo]

that the eastward expansion of NATO (in a violation of a promise made to the Russians in the early 90s not to)

Link to the treaty by NATO promising to not expand eastward to Poland, etc.

It does NOT exist.

[Kazan]

There was treaty. But, there WAS a promise made to the Russians not to expand NATO eastward and despicable that promise was broken.

Washington D.C., December 12, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade 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, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu).