Comments by "Daniel B West" (@danielbwest) on "Geopolitical Economy Report"
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@ngandosambalundula8183 😂😂😂😂 the audacity
Maybe you should listen to Nickayz2 and actually debate him on the points instead of cheap insults. You've got some nerve calling out someone and trying to use big words to make yourself sound smart 😂
If you really were an "independent thinker", were really interested in seeking "histoical truths", and had done your own research, you would know Ben intentionally misrepresented the truth. There is a full transcript of the minutes of the meeting he used as an excuse. Look it up online. Read it. Fully. Also read a memo of a conversation btw Gorbacheov and Baker February 9 1990. Read it. Fully.
They were in negotiation. Negotiations as ti whether Germany in the post cold war era would be fully sovereign, or under American nuclear umbrella. As part of that negotiation proposals were made within a context about German unification. The fact that James Baker said there would be no NATO expansion east doesn't mean it was a PROMISE or an AGREEMENT set in stone outside of that context. No agreement, no declaration, no diplomatic note. Nothing
Many Soviet leaders weren't afraid of NATO, because they already had several borders with NATO. The final treaty was about the GDR, not NATO expansion into the East. Gorbachov said in an interview many years later that the reason they didn't include it in writing was there was already NATO and the Warsaw Pact. There was nowhere to expand. That's why there is no written assurance of non-western expansion. If the Russians felt it was really important, they would have put it in. Gorbachov himself said talks of NATO non-western expansion WAS A MYTH. HE SAID IT. OUT OF TH HORSES OWN MOUTH. Get it?
The truth is the geopolitical landscape changed. The interests of the Baltic and Balkan countries as well as Poland changed. They wanted to be part of NATO. And they made their intentions clear to both the US AND Russia. The Russian government did not oppose their entry into NATO. You know who did? The Russian elites and oligarchs who didn't recognise the rights of these countries to forge their own path away from the Russian sphere of influence. Wouldn't Ben call that imperialism? So he's good at calling out American imperialism, but not Russian?
Did Ben mention any of this? Did Ben tell you that? Nope. And why not? Yet you take his word without doing your own research. Actually think for yourself
If you need some guy on YouTube to stroke your ego to make yourself feel smart, then you're FAR away from an independent thinker. If I had to do all this to explain to some random guy on you tube why your not as smart as OR well informed as you think you are, then you're not a serious person at all
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