In 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow to discuss German reunification. Baker famously assured Gorbachev that NATO would not expand eastward—a verbal promise that, in hindsight, would prove to be a critical miscalculation.
🔎 But was this a misunderstanding, a broken promise, or a strategic maneuve…
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