> He lied.[0] No one wants to look like a fool. He didn't. Talks about NATO's future were limited to East Germany alone and written down into the articles 4 an

> He lied.[0] No one wants to look like a fool. He didn't. Talks about NATO's future were limited to East Germany alone and written down into the articles 4 and 5 of the so-called "4+2 treaty" from 1990, which settled the post-reunification status of East Germany. In the treaty, it was agreed that foreign NATO forces would not enter East Germany before Soviet forces had withdrawn (by 1994). The treaty: https://web.archive.org/web/20220116001812/http://foto.archivalware.co.uk/data/Library2/pdf/1991-TS0088.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220116001812/http://foto.archi... It's absurd to even suggest anything beyond that, because post-reunification Germany was to border the Warsaw Pact. Even theoretically, there was nowhere for NATO to "expand." Gorbachev's team did not foresee the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact the following year.