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Were those assurances made to The Soviet Union or the Russian Federation that followed it?
by satori99 5y ago
Were those assurances made to The Soviet Union or the Russian Federation that followed it?
- eternalban 5y agoIt is irrelevant and a red-herring. Great power agreements are written legal documents. There was no agreement and thus the question of continuity of the non-agreement is meaningless.
- dragonwriter 5y agoWere actual binding commitments made, Russia would have inherited them as successor in interest. But no one pushing this Russian propaganda line can point to anything that even remotely resembles even a personal (much less binding international) commitment, just a few instances around 1990-1991 where Western leaders indicated that they (depending on which statement or communication it is) either were not immediately prepared for or did not immediately envision further eastward deployment of troops of expansion of NATO.