Did NATO and Russia actually have a formal agreement stating that NATO should not have expanded eastwards?

based
fuck froggers

also there were treaties signed at the highest level in 1999 and 2010
which basically forbid NATO expansion
as it states that no nation should strengthen its own security at the cost of security of others

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Oh gross, he's Italian

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No.

On Western diplomat 40 years ago implied NATO "maybe" wouldn't expand Germany, but they never formally agreed or signed anything.

That shit is the fakest shit ever. No they didnt. They never talked about Eastern Europe

No, it's a Russian cope.

no, it was a Bush I advisor who suggested it purely as a hypothetical option to Gorbachev (as a possibility after German reunification) and got dressed-down for even suggesting it.

No. And this is not Russia's problem.

What a shit cope.
Russia is the successor to USSR
>we had a deal but that was YESTERDAY
kys bong

I will spare you guys the labor of reading entire books and post spoilers.

>To convince Gorbachev to relinquish this military and legal might, Baker uttered the words as a hypothetical bargain: what if you let your part of Germany go, and we agree that NATO will “not shift one inch eastward from its present position?” A controversy erupted over this exchange almost immediately, at first behind closed doors and then publicly; but more important was the decade to follow, when these three words took on far-reaching new meanings. Gorbachev did let his part of Germany go, but along the way Washington rethought its options, not least after the Soviet Union’s collapse in December 1991. The United States realized it could not only win big, but win bigger. Not one inch of territory need be off-limits to NATO. Washington could lead the alliance in opening a path for large numbers of eager new members to join. In the 1990s it did just that, resulting by March 12, 1999 in enlargement across Central and Eastern Europe and to the Polish-Russian border. But on December 31 of that year, Vladimir Putin rose to the top in Moscow. As NATO kept expanding, he ultimately decided to use violence in an effort to ensure that not one inch more of territory would join. The game of moving by inches resulted in a stalemate.

Sarotte, M. E.. Not One Inch (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) (pp. 16-17). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.

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Gibs

>The first post-Cold War expansion of NATO came with German reunification on 3 October 1990, when the former East Germany became part of the Federal Republic of Germany and the alliance. This had been agreed in the Two Plus Four Treaty earlier in the year. To secure Soviet approval of a united Germany remaining in NATO, it was agreed that foreign troops and nuclear weapons would not be stationed in the former East Germany.[9] Though the topic may have been raised during the treaty's negotiations, there is no mention of NATO enlargement in the September–October 1990 agreements on German reunification.[10] Whether or not Hans-Dietrich Genscher and James Baker, as representatives from NATO member states, informally committed to not enlarge NATO east of East Germany during these and contemporary negotiations with Soviet counterparts has long been a matter of dispute among historians and international relations scholars.[11][12][13][14][15] A declassified U.S. memorandum[16] and documents from the Soviets[17] reflect how then Secretary of State of the United States, James Baker, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his Minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze discussed on NATO's expansion in a meeting in Moscow in February 9, 1990, in negotiations prior to the German reunification. Baker delivered to Gorbachev the famous line ‘If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO, there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east'.[18]

It's real. Imagine siding with Elsa the namefag tranny on this
Lmao

Than why the US didn't allow the USSR to deploy rockets in Cuba?
Answer this question genius!

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>Instead of incremental accession by a large number of states, they had the alliance extend the full weight of the Article 5 guarantee to a small number of states. While their motives had merit, their mode of expansion accelerated the timing and drew a new line between the former Soviet Bloc states that had managed to secure Article 5 and those that had not. One consequence was that American options for managing post– Cold War contingency— namely, through the creation of a variety of relationships with such states, most notably with Georgia and Ukraine— became dramatically more limited just as Putin was rising within the ranks in Russia.

Sarotte, M. E.. Not One Inch (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) (p. 22). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.

What does that have to do with NATO expansion genius? Your whataboutism program is buggy.