Why Russia, justifiably, cannot trust the United States

Document 05

Memorandum of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker in Moscow.

Feb 9, 1990

Source

U.S. Department of State, FOIA 199504567 (National Security Archive Flashpoints Collection, Box 38)

Even with (unjustified) redactions by U.S. classification officers, this American transcript of perhaps the most famous U.S. assurance to the Soviets on NATO expansion confirms the Soviet transcript of the same conversation. 

Repeating what Bush said at the Malta summit in December 1989, Baker tells Gorbachev: 

“The President and I have made clear that we seek no unilateral advantage in this process” of inevitable German unification. Baker goes on to say, 

“We understand the need for assurances to the countries in the East. 

<B>If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO, 

there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east.”</B> 

[Hello? Can you Russia-hating Democrats understand that?]

Later in the conversation, Baker poses the same position as a question, 

“would you prefer a united Germany outside of NATO that is independent and has no US forces 

or would you prefer a united Germany with ties to NATO and <B>assurances that there would be no extension of NATO’s current jurisdiction eastward?</B>” 

The declassifiers of this memcon actually redacted Gorbachev’s response that indeed such an expansion would be “unacceptable” – 

but Baker’s letter to Kohl the next day, published in 1998 by the Germans, gives the quote.

Document 5

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early

"The documents show that 

multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that 

discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that 

subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels. 

The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.” "

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KWH comment:

Without naming names,

the Democratic Party in America seems united in its hatred of Russia.

(And its love for transgenderism.)

This is utterly sick.

I condemn such views.