Geopolitical Assurances and NATO Expansion

There is one other factor here that we seem to be forgetting, and we did, though it was

not a legally binding assurance, we gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev, back when the Soviet

Union existed, that if a united Germany was able to stay in NATO, NATO would not be moved

eastward. And, you know, I think that the current Russian government is very clear about

So we would be, but that assurance was given to the Soviet Union.

That is right. It is not a legally binding, but it was, you might say, a geopolitical deal.