NATO Expands Eastward to Russia - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
In
1990, on the eve of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, US Secretary of
State James Baker assured USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev that “NATO
will not extend by a single inch to the
east”. But in twenty years, after having demolished the Yugoslavian
Federation, NATO extended from 16 to 30 countries, expanding more and
more eastwards to Russia.
