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| Title: | Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No” | Brookings |
| URL: | https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/ |
| Publisher: | Brookings |
| Date published: | November 6, 2014 |
| Description: | It is abundantly evident that Russian President Vladimir Putin is no fan of NATO. Indeed, he displays a pronounced – almost obsessive – antipathy toward the Alliance. He claims that NATO took advantage of Russian weakness after the collapse of the Soviet Union to enlarge to its east, in violation of promises allegedly made to Moscow by Western leaders. But no such promises were made – a point now confirmed by someone who was definitely in a position to know: Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the Soviet Union. |
