"American Exceptionalism is a Myth - There is NO Honor in This"
The truth eventually makes itself known:
".. a trove of recently declassified Cold War documents reveals the astounding extent of the lies, duplicity and double-dealing engaged in by the western powers with the collapsing Soviet Union in 1990 .."
The deals and promises made by HW Bush and Jim Baker proved to be lies, damned lies. The excuse made years later when a bankrupt Russia complained was "it was never put in writing". Oh, I can tell you from personal experience, that is an extreme act of betrayal and displays the kind of character (ZERO honor) one was dealing with.
".. All western powers and statesmen assured the Russians that NATO would not take advantage of the Soviet retreat and that a new era of amity and cooperation would dawn in post-Cold War Europe. US Secretary of State Jim Baker offered ‘ironclad guarantees’ there would be no NATO expansion. Lies, all lies.
Gorbachev was a humanist, a very decent, intelligent man who believed he could end the Cold War and nuclear arms race. He ordered the Red Army back from Eastern Europe. I was in Wunsdorf, East Germany, HQ of the Group of Soviet Forces, Germany, and at Stasi secret police HQ in East Berlin right after the pullout order was given. The Soviets withdrew their 338,000 troops and 4,200 tanks and sent them home at lightening speed.
Western promises made to Soviet leaders by President George W. H. Bush and Jim Baker quickly proved to be empty. They were honorable men but their predecessors were not. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush quickly began moving NATO into Eastern Europe, violating all the pledges made to Moscow.
The Poles, Hungarians and Czechs were brought into NATO, then Romania and Bulgaria, the Baltic States, Albania, and Montenegro. Washington tried to get the former Soviet Republics of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. The Moscow-aligned government of Ukraine was overthrown in a US-engineered coup. The road to Moscow was open.
All the bankrupt, confused Russians could do was denounce these eastward moves by the US and NATO. The best response NATO and Washington could come up with was, ‘well, there was no official written promise.’
Epic BS. And here in 2017 the US believes the RUSSIANS manipulated the US elections? No, that move would be made by a non-honorable and extremely despicable nation like Israel (who follows in America's footsteps for being dishonorable no matter the costs).
"... Today, US military aircraft based on the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria, former Warsaw Pact members, probe Russian airspace over the Black Sea and the vital strategic port of Sevastopol. Washington talks about arming chaotic Ukraine. US and NATO troops are in the Baltic, on Russia’s northwestern borders. Polish right-wingers are beating the war drums against Russia..."
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/12/eric-margolis/lies-damn-lies-how-the-west-deceived-russia/
Stupid .. all this lying comes back to bite .. which is why the US will continue to go into debt and throw BIG money scrambling at being the world's dominate power ... which in the end will kill itself just like the USSR did in the 1980s .. it is not sustainable .. but the puppets that run the show are not concerned about tomorrow or their kids and grandkids .. only about the present, power and money.
"It's a sick world, with sick people" - Sinbad in 'Jingle All the Way'
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