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Russia has 'right to war' with 'each and every' NATO country - Medvedev
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There was no such promise.
Stop spreading Kremlin propaganda.
So yeah this is another case of russia bending history to fuel their victim complex.
It's written right in your article:
It's all that matters. Some random utterances, speaking off the record etc. don't count, aren't and cannot be binding.
How could we bind ourselves to something if we don't even know what exactly was promised?
Furthermore, were those people uttering those hypothetical sentences even authorized to make such promises? We'll never know, they were never written down, never vetted, nothing. It's all meaningless.
Well, US domestic politics isn't international, is it?
What did the other side receive? We'll never know, since it wasn't recorded, most people involved can't remember (Gorbachev couldn't recall any such promises) and/or are already dead.
It can be used to resolve an immediate problem. But it's absurd to think that an unrecorded agreement whose terms nobody knows will be binding for eternity.
This is not why the war was started, this is just the excuse they're trying to justify it with. Don't be complicit.
Is it expansion if people are clamoring to join you?
Technically yes isn't yes tho. I mean Russia will do anything to justify itself. The difference between NATO expansion and Russian expansion, Russia engages military operations while countries are trying to join NATO to protect themselves from Russia
what? who is invading russia? NATO has invaded anyone else either
so to be clear on the original point, NATO hasnt broken any treaty and its 'expansion' is people wanting to join so that they dont get invaded by russia