Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Russian army unaware of the ability of the Ukrainians" video.
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@ghostdog4330
Myth 1: NATO promised Russia it would not expand after the Cold War
Fact: Such an agreement was never made. NATO’s door has been open to new members since it was founded in 1949 – and that has never changed. This “Open Door Policy” is enshrined in Article 10 of NATO’s founding treaty, which says “any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic” can apply for membership. Decisions on membership are taken by consensus among all Allies. No treaty signed by the United States, Europe and Russia included provisions on NATO membership.
The idea of NATO expansion beyond a united Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, particularly as the Warsaw Pact still existed. This was confirmed by Mikhail Gorbachev in an interview in 2014: "The topic of 'NATO expansion' was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn't bring it up, either."
Declassified White House transcripts also reveal that, in 1997, Bill Clinton consistently refused Boris Yeltsin's offer of a 'gentlemen's agreement' that no former Soviet Republics would enter NATO: "I can't make commitments on behalf of NATO, and I'm not going to be in the position myself of vetoing NATO expansion with respect to any country, much less letting you or anyone else do so…NATO operates by consensus."
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@ghostdog4330
Fact : Six countries only Agreed To Restrictions On Former GDR
In 1990, six countries – East and West Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France – held discussions on the reunification of Germany.
The Germans, Americans, British, and French agreed that there would be “no deployment of non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former GDR (East Germany)“.
That agreement was incorporated in Article 5 of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, which was signed on 12 September 1990 by the six countries :
Until Soviet forces had completed their withdrawal from the former GDR, only German territorial defense units not integrated into NATO would be deployed in that territory.
There would be no increase in the numbers of troops or equipment of U.S., British and French forces stationed in Berlin.
Once Soviet forces had withdrawn, German forces assigned to NATO could be deployed in the former GDR, but foreign forces and nuclear weapons systems would not be deployed there.
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The Three Seas Initiative member countries did NOT sign Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.
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@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ False, Crimea was Crimean Tatars before the Russians. Russia has land grabbed about 40% Donbas.
Donetsk was a British mining city, founded by John James Hughes with a group of ironworkers and miners mostly from South Wales. Hughes personally provided a hospital, schools, bath houses, tea rooms, a fire brigade, and an Anglican church dedicated to the patron saints St George and St David.
Over the years, although a Russian workforce was trained by the company, skilled workers from the United Kingdom continued to be employed, and many technical, engineering and managerial positions were filled by British immigrants; who were overwhelmingly Welsh. A thriving expatriate community was established, living in good quality company housing, and provided with an English school and an Anglican church. Despite the cold winters, hot summers and occasional cholera epidemics, some families remained in Hughesovka for many years. Over the next twenty years, the works prospered and expanded, first under John Hughes and then, after his death in 1889, under the management of four of his sons.
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 ended the Hughes family's connection to the works. The Hughes brothers and almost all their foreign employees returned to Britain or other countries. The works were nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1919.
Putin continues Grand Duchy of Moscow imperialism just like Imperial Russia and the Bolsheviks.
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