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by bwilli123 1605 days ago
..."In my interviews with Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in 1994, Baker acknowledged (and Shevardnadze confirmed) that he told the former foreign minister the United States would not “leapfrog” over a reunified Germany to move closer to the borders of the Soviet Union. There are reports that Baker was willing to put this commitment in writing, but that national security adviser Brent Scowcroft convinced the president not to do so."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/18/bill-clintons-role-i...

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Baltic countries (NATO members) has been bordered with Russia since 2004. It's a long broken promise.