Not One Inch
by Mary Elise Sarotte · first published 2021
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Not one inch eastwards – nicht einen Schritt weiter nach Osten. Mit diesen Worten schlug US-Außenminister James Baker Gorbatschow im Rahmen der Verhandlungen um die deutsche Wiedervereinigung einen hypothetischen Handel vor: Ihr gebt euren Teil Deutschlands frei, wir verrücken die Nato nicht nach Osten. Seitdem ranken sich um dieses Gespräch zahlreiche Legenden und Kontroversen. Gab es ein Versprechen des Westens, sich nicht auszudehnen? Und wie kam es zu der heute so umstrittenen Nato-Osterweiterung? Mary Elise Sarotte hat Unmengen von Archivmaterial durchforstet, um eine der großen politisch
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my understanding of the video, and after having read the historical book "Not One Inch" by ME Sarotte [1] is that during the numerous meetings between the US and the USSR, over several years, at one (1) time George Baker said the famous "Not One Inch" (which I highly recommend) Not only…
…at that point needed humanitarian help to stave off famine. Ukraine itself does not have the expertise to maintain the nukes, according to Sarotte's book. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259933/not-one-inch
on “Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances” ↗…what I researched before. I am somewhat worried that I accidently got trapped in a bubble as the pieces fit together almost to well, so I will have to look more for opposing opinions. M. E. Sarotte: Not One Inch - America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2022) [1] John Mearsheimer: Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? (2015) [2] Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin (2018)…
on “Ukraine accepted to NATO cyber defence centre” ↗…and Russia turned against NATO and the USA again, Putin's 2007 speech at the Munich Security Conference is probably the most well known expression of Russia's or Putin's frustration [4]. M. E. Sarotte: Not One Inch - America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2022) [1] John Mearsheimer: Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? (2015) [2] Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin (2018)…
on “Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war” ↗This is the citation in The Folly and the Glory: > Mary Elise Sarotte, “Not One Inch Eastward? Bush, Baker, Kohl, Genscher, Gorbachev, and the Origin of Russian Resentment Toward NATO Enlargement in February 1990,” Diplomatic History 34, no. 1 (January 2010): 119–40. Sarotte fought for,…
on “Was German unification inevitable?” ↗https://www.amazon.com/Not-One-Inch-Post-Cold-Stalemate/dp/0... At least one book have been written on this. USA has compliant neighbours that if necessary, they can crush, easy peasy. Then it's surrounded by two oceans. Transit across…
on “Edward Snowden Says 'Media Pushing for War'” ↗https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259933/not-one-inch M. E. Sarotte wrote a whole book on it. I haven't finished reading the whole thing, but it starts with the fall of the Berlin wall, and reunification, where US and Germany figured that it was possible…
on “Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war” ↗We are also dealing today with blowback from the perceived claim that "Not One Inch" [1] of NATO expansion to the East could be expected as Western policy. The Partnership for Peace program may have started off in the right direction, but, as the military hawks took policy control like…
on “Mikhail Gorbachev has died” ↗…it are scrubbed by Google. There is an article about it at RT (Russia Today) [1] but to you it is most probably just "propaganda" even if it quotes "Der Spiegel". There is also a book tellingly called "Not One Inch" [2]. You may argue that breaking promises and agreements doesn't matter, but as we can see in Ukraine it leads to death and destruction. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/nato-osterweiterung-aktenfund...…
on “The Case for the F-35” ↗…it are scrubbed by Google. There is an article about it at RT (Russia Today) [1] but to you it is most probably just "propaganda" even if it quotes "Der Spiegel". There is also a book tellingly called "Not One Inch" [2]. Your attempt to hide behind a paywalled article with literally 0 other evidence is an admirable effort, but unfortunately theres plenty of non paywalled articles on exactly why you're wrong. The…
on “The Case for the F-35” ↗