> Because it was verbally promised by different high ranking officials, that the NATO would NOT move further east. This was about easy Germany and never about

> Because it was verbally promised by different high ranking officials, that the NATO would NOT move further east. This was about easy Germany and never about anything else except in the fever dreams of people like Putin. And on that note NATO has too this day kept its promise regarding east Germany even though the country the promise was made to no longer exists.