Maybe Gorbachev feels embarrassed that he didn’t get any formal guarantees from the West. In any case, declassified US, Soviet, German, British and French docu

Maybe Gorbachev feels embarrassed that he didn’t get any formal guarantees from the West. In any case, declassified US, Soviet, German, British and French documents[1] show that multiple Western leaders assured Gorbachev himself that Soviet security concerns would not be threatened. And, of course, it was specifically Nato that was under discussion. [1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...