Скачать или смотреть FACT CHECK: To Justify Ukraine Threat, Russia Touts Phony NATO ‘Promise’ Tale

As talks between the U.S., NATO and Russia took place on January 10, Russia’s embassy in Estonia tweeted a falsehood that the Kremlin has promoted about NATO expansion.

The erroneous claim is that in 1990, the U.S. “promised” former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand.

“Then US Secretary of State James #Baker assured: ‘There would be no extension of @NATO one inch to the East,’” the tweet read. “If don’t believe us, look at the unclassified docs.”

In fact, the “docs” only help disprove this bogus claim.

The documents are transcripts of a conversation between Secretary of State James Baker, who served in the administration of George H.W. Bush (1989-1993), and then-Soviet leader Gorbachev. The topic was German reunification.

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