NATO's Broken Promise

The segment illuminates a controversial historical commitment by the US about NATO's expansion.

And if I could just put a parentheses around that, the US had promised unequivocally to the Soviet Union in the context of German reunification as of February 2000, February, sorry, 1990, 1990, excuse me, yes, that NATO would not move one inch eastward. This remains, by the way, highly contested to this day. But if anyone wants the information, you go on something called the National Security Archive of George Washington University and you can read the dozens and dozens of statements and all of the archival material, making completely, absolutely, unequivocally clear that the United States and Germany promised that NATO would not move one inch eastward.