“Blinken doesn't know history well.
Before the unification of Germany, which was then a top priority for the United States and their President Bush Sr. ".
Gorbachev made a strategic miscalculation by not obliging the Americans and Kolya to fix this on paper.
It is for this reason that Russia is now demanding legally binding and fixed guarantees: the words of the former Western leaders are worth little, ”Pushkov wrote on Telegram.
Earlier, Blinken said that the West never made promises to Russia about the non-expansion of NATO.
In turn, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recalled evidence of the West's assurances not to expand NATO eastward.
During a press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that NATO was cheating on the issue of not expanding the alliance to the east.
The head of state said that Russia was "cheated, just blatantly deceived."