Gorbachev’s mistaken belief in US promises of NATO non expansion revealed in the United States
The United States promised USSR First President Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO to the East, his mistake was not to understand that the next US president could abandon promises of the previous one, former US Treasury Assistant Secretary Paul Roberts told RIA Novosti.
“Gorbachev’s mistake was a misunderstanding of Washington. An American president can make an agreement that his successor will renege on. Even if there are signed documents, and in the absence of such, the corrupt Clinton regime was able to claim that agreements on NATO non-movement to Russia’s borders never existed,” said Roberts, who worked in President Ronald Reagan’s administration.
According to Roberts, Joe Biden’s administration is expanding the new Cold War that Bill Clinton’s administration started in place of the one completed by Gorbachev and Reagan.
“The Kremlin’s tolerance of the West’s stated aggressive intentions against Russia is surprising. How can anyone in the Kremlin believe the words of Washington?” – Roberts stated.
According to Roberts, Reagan understood the greatness of Gorbachev and, despite opposition from the CIA and the U.S. military complex, was moving to end the Cold War without imagining that the USSR would collapse. Roberts said he knew for a fact that former Secretary of State under the Reagan administration James Baker had given assurances to Gorbachev that if he allowed German reunification, NATO would not move an inch eastwards.
“There is not the slightest doubt about that, despite the denials of US neoconservatives and Clinton administration officials,” Roberts said.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the USSR’s first president, died at 92 on Tuesday evening after a severe and prolonged illness. He won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the peace process between the Soviet Union and the West.