Answer: yes, but not unqualified ones, which is what Lavrov is claiming. And since, again, Russia is not the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact has been buried in an unmarked grave for 35 years the poi… (View Post)

Again, I think you are misunderstanding what was said and why. Nobody disputes that NATO promised no NATO soldiers would be stationed in East Germany without Soviet agreement in the event of reunific… (View Post)

I’m just one person, Leon. We don’t all have six different identities that need to be referred to in every conversation. (View Post)

Even if those documents are accepted, and there are question marks over some of them, again the key word is ‘Soviet.’ After 1991 there was no Soviet Union to threaten. Any assurances on NATO beyond E… (View Post)

AIR the very specific promise was that NATO forces would not be stationed in East Germany without the prior agreement of the USSR. Which point became moot on the 31st December 1991. (View Post)