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There is literally zero evidence of that, except claims by the Russian propaganda itself.
People who live in totalitarian countries (like Russia, where ruler is in a power for a lifetime), seems to not understand that democracies don't do promises, because leaders changes frequently, and any promise without written agreement is just plain impossible except very short term.
So you are using an instance of internal russian lie and propaganda to "hate US imperialism and propaganda", and don't see it yourself.
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
You're welcome.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
All of your comments are suspiciously related to US foreign policy issues btw ;)
This expansion argument also ignores that Eastern European countries are joining NATO of their own accord.
Btw Russia and the US also signed the Budapest memorandum to respect Ukraine's sovereignty.
So if a verbal agreement is worthless & a treaty is worthless, how does one negotiate with the US?
I'm unsure how France's presidential system works and what authority he may have.
This is not a subtle difference. Japanese imperial interests led to a massively destructive war that wasn't really in the interest of the Japanese population. Same with Russia. Plenty of Buryats, Tuvans, Dagestanis and other peripheral nations of the Russian Federation died as cannon fodder for an imperial idea that doesn't even consider them equal to white Slavic Russians.
I would argue that it is in the best interests of Russia as such that their imperial dreams collapse and never arise again. Other nations managed to shake off that backward worldview. Russians can perhaps, too, one day.
Russia already got multiple assurances that Ukraines NATO membership would be vetoed.
They clearly don't care about NATO or about defending Russian interests, this is plain and simple imperialism.