I remember the happy days when German reunification loomed. It was in all the newspapers that NATO had agreed to not expand eastward if the Soviets withdrew to let the East and West Germans come together again. In fact, non-German NATO troops were not to even enter the territory of the former East Germany!
Of course, the east of Germany (actually, the center, the east having been seized by the Soviets and Poland in 1945) had been jewish-marxist and the west jewish-capitalist. In both cases, they were ruled by jews.
NATO rejects Russia’s ‘red line’
NATO has said it “will not compromise”on potential expansion into Ukraine, Georgia, and other former Soviet republics, as this clashes with the “core principles”of the alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Wednesday.
The alliance’s response, which Stoltenberg said all 30 members agreed upon, was delivered to Moscow earlier in the day by the US ambassador, alongside Washington’s separate written note.
The US has asked Russia to keep the contents of its response private.
Stoltenberg, who was half an hour late to the scheduled online press event, outlined three basic topics that the NATO response touched on. One was re-establishing diplomatic ties between NATO and Russia, which he blamed Moscow for severing. The other was NATO’s readiness to “engage in dialogue” and “listen to Russian concerns,” while respecting the right of each country to choose its own security arrangements.
Russia should refrain from “aggression” aimed at NATO allies and withdraw from “Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova,” where it is not wanted, Stoltenberg said.
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…..Where in the NATO Treaty does it say every nation has a right to join NATO??????? Where is this “core principle” spelled out?
Nowhere!
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty
This article, No. 10, says the members MAY invite other countries to join.
That is not the same as other nations having some “RIGHT” to join!
My father was invited to be a member of certain country clubs. He was viewed as the likable, respectable, honest, prestigous and affluent man that he was. His qualities made him seem useful to those who were already members.
But he never had a RIGHT to join them!!
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Article 10
The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty.
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How does inviting a broke jew tyranny that seeks war with the gigantic, nuclear-armed Russia into NATO “contribute to the security” of the NATO area?
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….Previous articles on Russia’s core demand
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“Sorry, Chump. You Didn’t Have It In Writing” — how the US broke solemn 1990 promises NOT to expand NATO to the Russian border
“Sorry Chump. You Didn’t Have It In Writing”
By Eric Margolis
December 17, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – At a time when the United States is convulsed by anti-Russian hysteria and demonization of Vladimir Putin, a trove of recently declassified Cold War documents reveals the astounding extent of the lies, duplicity and double-dealing engaged in by the western powers with the collapsing Soviet Union in 1990.
I was covering Moscow in those days and met some of the key players in this sordid drama. Ever since, I’ve been writing that the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, were shamelessly lied to and deceived by the United States, Britain, and their appendage, NATO.
All the western powers promised Gorbachev and Shevardnadze that NATO would not expand eastward “by one inch” if Moscow would pull the Red Army out of East Germany and allow it to peacefully reunify with West Germany.
This was a titanic concession by Gorbachev: it led to a failed coup against him in 1991 by Communist hardliners.
The documents released by George Washington University in Washington DC, which I attended for a semester, make sickening reading (see them online).
All western powers and statesmen assured the Russians that NATO would not take advantage of the Soviet retreat and that a new era of amity and cooperation would dawn in post-Cold War Europe. US Secretary of State Jim Baker offered “ironclad guarantees” there would be no NATO expansion.
Lies, all lies.
Gorbachev was a humanist, a very decent, intelligent man who believed he could end the Cold War and nuclear arms race. He ordered the Red Army back from Eastern Europe. I was in Wunsdorf, East Germany, HQ of the Group of Soviet Forces, Germany, and at Stasi secret police HQ in East Berlin right after the pull-out order was given. The Soviets withdrew their 338,000 troops and 4,200 tanks and sent them home at lightening speed.
Western promises made to Soviet leaders by President George W. H. Bush and Jim Baker quickly proved to be empty.
Troop strengths before 1990
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush quickly began moving NATO into Eastern Europe, violating all the pledges made to Moscow.
The Poles, Hungarians and Czechs were brought into NATO, then Romania and Bulgaria, the Baltic States, Albania, and Montenegro. Washington tried to get the former Soviet Republics of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. The Moscow-aligned government of Ukraine was overthrown in a US-engineered coup [in 2014]. The road to Moscow was open.
All the bankrupt, confused Russians could do was denounce these eastward moves by the US and NATO. The best response NATO and Washington could come up with was, “Well, there was no official, written promise.”
This is worthy of a street peddler selling counterfeit watches.
The leaders of the US, Britain, France, Belgium and Italy all lied. Germany was caught between its honor and imminent reunification. So even its Chancellor Helmut Kohl had to go along with the West’s prevarications.
At the time, I wrote that the best solution would be for the demilitarization of formerly Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe. NATO had no need or business to expand eastward. Doing so would be a constant provocation to Russia, which regarded Eastern Europe as an essential defensive glacis against invasions from the West.
Now, with NATO forces on its western borders, Russia’s deepest fears have been realized.
Today, US military aircraft based on the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria, former Warsaw Pact members, probe Russian airspace over the Black Sea and the vital strategic port of Sevastopol. Washington talks about arming chaotic Ukraine. US and NATO troops are in the Baltic, on Russia’s northwestern borders. Polish right-wingers are beating the war drums against Russia.
NATO today
In 1990, KGB and CIA agreed to the principal of “not one inch” eastward for NATO. Former US ambassador to Moscow, Jack Matlock, confirms the same agreement. Gorbachev, who is denounced as a foolish idealist by many Russians, trusted the Western powers. He should have had a battalion of New York City garment district shyster lawyers to document his agreements in 1990. He thought he was dealing with honest, honorable men, like himself.
Is it any wonder after this bait-and-switch diplomacy that Russia has no trust in the Western powers?
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Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation “ Pakistan, Hurriyet, “ Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. https://ericmargolis.com
If the Nato forces were really trying to stop the Russians, then why aren’t they deployed in white camoflage? Ok, it won’t stop a round ,but it makes the enemy hesitate to check his aim, giving you time to fire first. All of a sudden Ukrainian forces are receiving Western weaponry, Nato protection.All with EU backing. Hey aren’t we meant to be broke? Government cut backs? Now the World is watching , I hope Mr Putin tells the West ” I’ll turn off your gas and oil if Nato keeps expanding Eastwards” pull back like Gorbachev agreed for the wall Comming down.