Stále mě udivuje, jak autoři píší bez pořádné rešerše, co se jim prostě hodí. Pan autor vychází z článku Marka Kramera z r. 2009, ze kterého si vyzobl jen to, co se mu hodilo do jeho názoru. Už neuvádí, že Kramer sice prezentuje názor Bushovské skupinky, ale zároveň uvádí svědectví dalších diplomatů, kteří slib potvrdili. Autor je pak i tak googlově neschopný, nebo spíše zaujatý, že ignoruje článek Foregin Affairs z minulého roku, který na základě odtajněných dokumentů gentlemanskou dohodu mezi USA a Ruskem potvrzuje a i další tvrzení z Kramerova článeku přímo vyvrací .
A Broken Promise?
What the West Really Told Moscow About NATO Expansion
...Mark Kramer assured readers not only that Russian claims were a complete “myth” but also that “the issue never came up during the negotiations on German reunification.”
Now that increasing numbers of formerly secret documents from 1989 and 1990 have made their way into the public domain, historians can shed new light on this controversy. The evidence demonstrates that contrary to the conventional wisdom in Washington, the issue of NATO’s future in not only East Germany but also eastern Europe arose soon after the Berlin Wall opened, as early as February 1990. U.S. officials, working closely with West German leaders, hinted to Moscow during negotiations that month that the alliance might not expand, not even to the eastern half of a soon-to-be-reunited Germany.
Documents also show that the United States, with the help of West Germany, soon pressured Gorbachev into allowing Germany to reunify, without making any kind of written promise about the alliance’s future plans. Put simply, there was never a formal deal, as Russia alleges -- but U.S. and West German officials briefly implied that such a deal might be on the table, and in return they received a “green light” to commence the process of German reunification. The dispute over this sequence of events has distorted relations between Washington and Moscow ever since.
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