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“‘Not one inch to the East,’ they told us in the 90s. So what? They cheated, just brazenly tricked us!”
— Putin during his Dec. 23, 2021 press conference.

Following @PaulPoast’s fine example again, here is a teaching thread, a.k.a. #PoastPost

reuters.com/world/europe/r…
Putin claims that Western leaders promised Moscow in 1990 that NATO would not move one inch eastward, that is, stay frozen on its eastern Cold War front line. What did Westerners want in exchange? Moscow’s permission to let divided Germany unify after the Berlin Wall opened. Image
Why did Moscow have to give permission for Germany to unify?

Because Moscow still had roughly 380,000 troops in the east of, and extensive legal rights over, divided Germany in 1990—all thanks to Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender in 1945. Image
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