Cheating Moscow – NATO’s dangerous expansion, is the fourth article in TFF’s series “The New Cold War”.
By Jonathan Power, Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research Associate.
NATO’s Summit takes place this coming weekend in Warsaw.
Warsaw is the Polish capital that gave name to the Warsaw Pact established there in May 1955 in response to NATO’s establishment in 1949.
While today’s NATO – with 12 times larger military expenditures than Russia – is becoming ever more confrontational, the Warsaw Pact did the world a huge favour by dissolving on July 1, 1991.
World renowned international columnist and TFF Associate, Jonathan Power, writes here about how NATO nations deliberately broke their promises to Mikhail Gorbachev about never expanding NATO an inch eastwards if he would accept German re-unification.
These broken promises and NATO’s expansion is the largest single cause of today’s new Cold War between Russia and NATO.
And it should be taken into account by media people covering this coming NATO Summit – Jan Oberg…
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Cheating Moscow – NATO’s dangerous expansion
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