The Three Big Lies Pertaining to Ukraine: The West’s leaders never promised Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze not to expand NATO eastward. They also did not state that they would take serious Soviet/Russian security interests around its borders. And therefore, each of the former Warsaw Pact countries has a right to join […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO’s chief Jens Stoltenberg To deceive, telling half-truths, or a complete lie is nothing new in politics, particularly security politics. But until some 20-30 years ago, I would – perhaps naively – see it as an exception. Tragically – and perhaps to many readers’ surprise – it is now […]
NATO has never promised not to admit new members, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Friday, labelling Russia's demands of the bloc inadmissible. However, long-declassified Western documents suggest otherwise. "NATO never promised.