Tag: Warsaw Pact

NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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.

NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard

‘NATO will be soiling its pants’: Ukrainian tycoon seen as power behind president calls for ‘new Warsaw Pact’ with Moscow

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A tycoon who spent millions of dollars arming anti-Russian fighters in Ukraine has emerged from the shadows to blast the Europe he once idolized. The oligarch now sees alliance with Russia as the only option for his country.
— Read on www.rt.com/news/473355-ukraine-moscow-alliance-kolomoysky/

Putin’s eating popcorn, as he watches this play out.