In his excellent article on NATO`s "relentless
march into eastern Europe" as a cause of Russia`s recent assertiveness, Jeremy
Corbyn failed to mention one important point. (A Monopoly on Expansion.
03/04/14) The west has reneged on the promise made to Gorbachev in the various
talks which preceded German unity. With West Germany being a member of NATO, and
the east a member of the Warsaw Pact, the need for Russian agreement was
imperative, and only when Baker, President Bush`s Secretary of State, said that
there"would be no extension of NATO`s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch
to the east" was Gorbachev persuaded.
As Corbyn`s article emphasised, the duplicity of
politicians in foreign policy is not confined to Russia, as western propaganda
would have us believe, and his argument that there is "more than a taint of
double standards and hypocrisy in western European and US concerns over the
Ukraine" is irrefutable.
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