NATO BROKE ITS (UNWRITTEN) GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA NOT TO EXPAND ONE INCH EAST

A gentlemen's agreement is legally non-binding and relies upon the honour of the parties concerned to ensure that the agreement is fulfilled. This is arguably the worst agreement to break because it depends on the trust and honour of the parties concerned that nothing is down in writing.

One such gentlemen's agreement appears to be the promise made by NATO to Russia that it would not expand east after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Cambridge 'Professor' of History and author of Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark, recently wrote in The Guardian basically telling to Putin to stop moaning and whinging about NATO expanding east because there was no piece of paper with this promise written on it.

But does Sleepwalkers expose the Freemasonic/British monarchy engineering of WW1? Er, nope.

So if this promise is not written down on paper, then what evidence is there that such a promise was made?

...Then, smash, the dream came to an end as President Bill Clinton, bucking America’s academic foreign policy elite, decided to expand NATO’s membership to former members of the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact.

George Kennan, America’s elder statesman on Russian issues, commented, “It shows so little understanding of Russian and Soviet history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then the NATO expanders will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are – but this is just wrong.”

He characterized it as the most dangerous foreign policy decision that the US had made since the end of the Second World War.

Defending Clinton and, later, George W. Bush and Barack Obama who continued the NATO expansion policy, their supporters have said that in expanding NATO eastward the West did not break its promise to Moscow not to.

But it did.

As ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said on many occasions there was a promise not to expand NATO “as much as a thumb’s width further to the East.”

This is an echo of the US secretary of state, James Baker, when he spoke in St Catherine’s Hall in the Kremlin on February 9th 1990, saying, there would be “no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east”.

Some re-writing of history has gone on. Now Baker has ambiguously denied there was any such agreement.

There has even been an effort to show that Gorbachev himself denies that there was an agreement. And it is true that in the last few years he has said one thing and then another. This is perhaps because he is embarrassed that he never asked for the US/German commitments in writing.

He has defended that decision arguing, “The Warsaw Pact still existed at the beginning of 1990. Merely the notion that NATO might expand to include countries in the alliance sounded completely absurd at the time”.

Nevertheless, the evidence that a commitment was made not to expand is strong.

Rodrick Braithwaite who was the UK’s ambassador to the Soviet Union and then the new Russia, has written, “After Germany reunited, Václav Havel, the Czech president, called for Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary to enter NATO.

The British prime minister and foreign secretary assured Soviet ministers that there was no such intention. NATO’s secretary general added that enlargement would damage relations with the Soviet Union.”

Jack Matlock, who was ambassador to Moscow for both Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior, has said on a number of occasions that Moscow was given “a clear commitment” not to expand NATO.

Der Spiegel, the German political weekly, has been through the German and British archives.

It found a minute of a conversation on February 10, 1990 when foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher spoke with Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

Genscher said, “For us one thing is certain: NATO will not expand to the east.” Because the conversation revolved mainly around the future of East Germany Genscher added explicitly, “As far as the non-expansion of NATO is concerned this also applies in general.”

In a major speech on January 31 1990 in Tutzing, Genscher said there would not be “an expansion of NATO territory to the east, in other words, closer to the borders of the Soviet Union”.

The British foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, when meeting Genscher on February 6th 1990 to discuss Hungary’s forthcoming free elections, was told that the Soviet Union needed “the certainty that Hungary will not become part of the Western alliance.”

The Kremlin, Genscher said, would have to be given assurances to that effect. Hurd agreed.

In April 2009 Gorbachev told the German newspaper “Bild”, “the West have probably rubbed their hands, rejoicing at having played a trick on the Russians.” It very much looks like it.

Moreover, the US gratuitously abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and decided also to employ missile defences in central Europe, thus undermining the so-called “nuclear balance”.

The West has taken advantage of a weakened Russian when instead it should have been paving the way for Russia to enter the “European House”.

History will not smile kindly on the dangerous and counterproductive expansion of NATO.

[source : Alfred Vierling, The west broke its promise to Russia not to expand NATO, http://alfredvierling.com/?p=4359, 5th June 2015]

This is strong evidence that there was some kind of agreement/promise that NATO would not expand east. It is Gorbachev's fault that such a promise was not written down and formalised.

So what happened to Gorbachev? He founded The Gorbachev Foundation with money from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations and has been trying to implement the green/one world agenda ever since.

But in addition to this, at the NATO summit in Bucharest in April 2008, it was announced that Ukraine and Georgia would at some time later join NATO. Putin was at that summit and stated that Ukraine and Georgia joining was a red line of sorts, probably referring to this broken agreement, and he expected some kind of recognition and appreciation from NATO because Russia had been allowing NATO transit across Russia to and from Afghanistan.

So how has NATO repaid that cooperation from Russia?

In August 2008 Saakashvili shelled South Ossetian villagers as they slept quietly in their beds which provoked a war between Russia and Georgia and the inevitable calls for Georgia to join NATO.

And last year NATO unleashed neo-Nazis onto Ukraine to overthrow a legitimately elected government and is now arming the junta in a civil war that has led to the deaths of nearly 7000 civilians of East Ukraine, and the junta taking rapid steps to join NATO. And just to rub it in a bit more, Saakashvili has been appointed Governor of Odessa where supporters of the Kiev Nazis burned alive 50 anti-Kiev protestors, shooting at those trying to jump from 2nd floor windows escaping the flames and beating to death those who survived the jump.

So there you have it. Thems the facts.

Would you buy a used car from NATO?