Al jaren
durven de NAVO, een groot deel van de westerse politici, gesteund
door de westerse reguliere (massa-) media, de bevolking van de EU en
de VS voor te liegen dat er nooit een overeenkomst is gesloten met
Gorbatsjov in 1991, waarin men Rusland beloofde dat de NAVO zich niet
uit zou breiden in Oost-Europa, richting Russische grens.
Terwijl
iedereen die zich enigszins heeft verdiept in deze zaak kon weten, dat
dit wel degelijk het geval was. Sterker nog: dit was voor Gorbatsjov
de voorwaarde om in te stemmen met de vereniging van West- en
Oost-Duitsland. Uit meerdere documenten blijkt nu dat het westen Rusland in de jaren 1990/1991 heeft verzekerd dat die NAVO uitbreiding niet zou plaatsvinden in de toekomst……..
Dit zet
grote vraagtekens bij alle leugens over Russische agressie in
Oost-Europa, zo bezien mogen de VS en de EU blij zijn dat Rusland zo
verstandig is geweest nooit actie te ondernemen tegen deze VS en NAVO
agressie*. Het is nu zelfs zo zot dat de VS dicht op de Russische
grens, in Roemenië en Polen, beiden ‘NAVO-landen’ een raketschild
heeft gestationeerd…… Een schild zogenaamd tegen Iraanse
raketten, echter die antiraketten kunnen in een mum van tijd voorzien
worden van kernkoppen (en dat zijn ze waarschijnlijk al), waarna ze als aanvalsraketten ingezet kunnen worden tegen Rusland en dat op redelijk korte afstand van
bijvoorbeeld Moskou…….
Voorts worden er de laatste jaren voortdurend grote NAVO oefening, gehouden langs de Russische grens…….. Tel daar nog eens de wil van de VS en Groot-Brittannie bij op, een eerste aanval met kernraketten niet langer uit te sluiten en WOIII ligt binnen schootsafstand…….**
Lees het
volgende artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi over deze zaak (en laat u
nooit meer voorliegen door de anti-Russische propagandamachine van
oorlogshitsers en dienaren van het vervloekte militair-industrieel
complex):
Turns
Out Russia Was Right: Declassified Docs Prove NATO Broke Its Promise
December
23, 2017 at 6:03 am
Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA) — When
the media talks about Russia’s activities in neighboring Europe,
Russia is typically
portrayed as
the aggressor. Russia’s standard response is usually that it has
been forced to protect its interests because the U.S. is actively
trying to contain
the country within a host of NATO allies,
which would essentially put American
troops and missiles alongside its border despite assurances at
the end of the Cold War that NATO would not expand into eastern
Europe.
However,
western critics are still debating whether such a promise ever
existed, as is NATO itself. As a result of this attempt to rewrite
history, NATO has continued to expand as far into eastern Europe as
possible, with Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic all joining in
1999. The alliance has broadened its
reach in the years since, ultimately to Russia’s detriment.
In
an article for Foreign
Affairs in
December 2014, Mark Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold
War studies, stated he
had “examined
the declassified negotiating records and concluded that no such
promise was ever offered.”
“Mary
Elise Sarotte (“A
Broken Promise?”
September/October
2014) points to my article as an example of the history she intends
to correct,” Kramer
wrote, “but
she provides nothing that would change my judgment about what
happened. As I wrote, the question of NATO’s possible expansion
eastward arose numerous times during negotiations Gorbachev conducted
with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, West German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl, and U.S. President George H. W. Bush. Viewed in
context, however,
it is clear that they were speaking solely about expanding the
alliance into East Germany.” [emphasis
added]
Kramer’s
assertion is that while it has been previously understood that
then-Secretary of State James Baker had assured Mikhail Gorbachev
that NATO would expand “not one inch eastward” during a meeting
that took place
on February 9, 1990,
the context was that of German reunification, not wider Europe.
However,
as the National
Interest recently
learned,
even Kramer’s assessment appears to be incorrect due to the release
of some further declassified
material.
“The
[recently declassified] documents show that multiple national leaders
were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European
membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991,” George
Washington University National Security Archives researchers Svetlana
Savranskaya and Tom Blanton wrote
in the National Security Archives. “That
discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations
in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German
territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about
being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written
contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels.”
According
to the National Interest — and Russia continuously argues —
Gorbachev only accepted the proposal for German reunification (which
Gorbachev could have vetoed) due to these assurances that NATO would
not expand into Eastern Europe. This sequence of events is similar to
how Russia was duped out of using its veto power on a U.N. Security
Council Resolution in Libya in 2011 after having received
assurances that
the NATO coalition would not pursue regime change.
“I
believe that your thoughts about the role of NATO in the current
situation are the result of misunderstanding,” Major told Gorbachev,
according to British Ambassador
Rodric Braithwaite’s diary entry of March 5, 1991. “We
are not talking about strengthening of NATO. We are talking about the
coordination of efforts that is already happening in Europe between
NATO and the West European Union, which, as it is envisioned, would
allow all members of the European Community to contribute to enhance
[our] security.”
The
documents also show that Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders received
assurances against NATO expansion from Baker; President George H.W.
Bush; West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher; West
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; former CIA Director Robert Gates;
French leader Francois Mitterrand (who told Gorbachev he was in favor
of “gradually dismantling the military blocs”; Margaret Thatcher;
British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd; and NATO secretary-general
Manfred Woerner.
Having
perused the relevant documents, Savranskaya and Blanton concluded
that “Gorbachev went to the end of the Soviet Union assured that
the West was not threatening his security and was not expanding
NATO.”
We
would do well to bear this in mind the next time the U.S.
saber-rattles Russia for wanting to protect
its borders against NATO aggression.
That being said, very few newspapers have paid any headline attention
at all to this story or its implications even though it continues to
be a major source of conflict between the two countries that hold the
majority of the world’s nuclear weapons.
Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo
========================================
* Al zou je met gemak kunnen stellen dat directe Russische actie (destijds bijna onmogelijk onder de corrupte alcoholist Jeltsin) tegen deze NAVO uitbreiding van meet af aan, heel veel ellende had kunnen voorkomen, ellende waar we nu mee te maken hebben, waar de VS en de NAVO Rusland tarten langs haar grenzen……
** Dit feit kreeg amper aandacht in de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, echter toen Rusland als reactie op deze nieuwe inzet op kernwapens door de VS en GB, ook een eerste aanval met kernwapens niet uit te sluiten, stonden deze zelfde media op de kop en spraken daar schande van……. Je weet wel, dezelfde media die zich onafhankelijk durven te noemen en een grote bek hebben over ‘fake news’ in de alternatieve media, terwijl ze zelf het ene ‘fake bericht’ na het andere brengen (neem alleen al de illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië…)……
en: ‘Zuid-Koreaanse president Moon Jae-in buiten spel gezet inzake Noord-Korea…..‘
en: ‘Rusland waarschuwt VS voor oorlog tegen Noord-Korea‘
en: ‘VS bezig met de voorbereiding van een militaire aanval op Noord-Korea……….‘
en: ‘Top VS generaal stelt dat er een grote oorlog met Rusland op komst is, ofwel: WOIII……‘
en: ‘Zuid-Koreaanse president Moon Jae-in buiten spel gezet inzake Noord-Korea…..‘
en: ‘Remco Breuker over ‘het Noord-Koreaanse gevaar’ en dwangarbeid in de EU…..‘
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