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Sa jag att det var så? Jag sa att det råder delade meningar i frågan och lyfte några argument. Agendan är att se rent krasst och akademiskt på denna konflikt och orsakssamband kring den. Detta är ju ingen hejarklackstråd för någon sida för att vara krass.
Tycker du att MG själv är tillräckligt gott vittne för vad som sagts?
MG egna ord.
RBTH: One of the key issues that has arisen in connection with the events in Ukraine is NATO expansion into the East. Do you get the feeling that your Western partners lied to you when they were developing their future plans in Eastern Europe? Why didn’t you insist that the promises made to you – particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East – be legally encoded? I will quote Baker: “NATO will not move one inch further east.”
M.G.:
The topic of “NATO expansion” was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a singe Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn’t bring it up, either. Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces from the alliance would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement, mentioned in your question, was made in that context. Kohl and [German Vice Chancellor Hans-Dietrich] Genscher talked about it.
Orsaken till att man inte pratade om andra länder och Nato, 1990, var att WP fortfarande existerade.
Du har väl varit i tråden tillräckligt länge för att veta detta.
https://www.rbth.com/international/2014/10/16/mikhail_gorbachev_i_am_against_all_walls_40673.htm l
Fattar inte att man måste upprepa detta gång på gång.
