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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door jogo
Poetin is het pad naar oorlog (eh speciale operatie) zoveel is zeker.
Vanwaar uw focus op de rol van de EU ?
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Daar begon dat pad van oorlog.
Je weet wel, the Berlin Wall.
Waar geplastronneerden van Westerse regimes plechtige beloften maakten aan Russische geplastronneerden.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-b...-leaders-early
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatsjov
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Maar ook het Westen werd bekritiseerd: op 8 november 2014, bij de herdenking van de 25e verjaardag van de val van de Berlijnse Muur, verweet Gorbatsjov de VS en andere westerse landen het niet nakomen van afspraken die na de omwentelingen van 1989 waren gemaakt en het profiteren van het op dat moment verzwakte Rusland.
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https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-b...rs-early#_edn1
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Baker started off his remarks, “Before saying a few words about the German issue, I wanted to emphasize that our policies are not aimed at separating Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union. We had that policy before. But today we are interested in building a stable Europe, and doing it together with you.” (See Document 18)
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Bush went out of his way to assure Gorbachev that Germany in NATO would never be directed at the USSR: “Believe me, we are not pushing Germany towards unification, and it is not us who determines the pace of this process. And of course, we have no intention, even in our thoughts, to harm the Soviet Union in any fashion.
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The Iron Lady:
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She said to Gorbachev: “We must find ways to give the Soviet Union confidence that its security would be assured….
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The view of the State Department was that NATO expansion was not on the agenda, because it was not in the interest of the U.S. to organize “an anti-Soviet coalition” that extended to the Soviet borders, not least because it might reverse the positive trends in the Soviet Union.
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Subsequently, when Soviet defense minister Marshal Dmitri Yazov asked Major about East European leaders’ interest in NATO membership, the British leader responded, “Nothing of the sort will happen.” (See Document 28)
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The Archive compiled these declassified documents for a panel discussion on November 10, 2017
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Het Russisch regime deed daar in 1990 een Chamberlainke.
Ze hebben zitten dralen tot het Westblok zich moeide in hun buurland Oekraine.