Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months agoNato expansion promise? Where did you get that from and who joined NATO before 2014 that “made” russia attack Ukraine?
It’s just bullshit kremlin talk.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 months ago
During the negotiations over the reunification of Germany in 1990, US Secretary of State James Baker made a verbal promise to Soviet Union Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh that NATO would not expand eastward if Russia accepted the reunification of Germany.
Its debated the authenticity of this but widly accepted. Of course this promise meant nothing same as the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances also meant nothing.
So basicly putin is a hypocritical bastard by claiming the whole nato wont expand thing was a broken promise while simultaneously breaking the Budapest Memorandum.