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[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is fake news propaganda.

Here's the link from the image

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16116-document-05-memorandum-conversation-between

It's multiple pages and here's the quote in context. The two are discussing how or whether east and west germany could reunite. Emphasis mine.

All our allies and East Europeans we have spoken to have told us that they want us to maintain a presence in Europe. I am not sure whether you favor that or not. But let me say that if our allies want us to go, we will be gone in a minute. Indeed, if they want us to leave we'll go and I can assure you that the sentiment of the American people is such that they will want us to leave immediately. The mechanism by which we have a US military presence in Europe is NATO. If you abolish NATO, there will be no more US presence.

We understand the need for assurances to the countries in the East. If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO, there would be no extension of NATO's jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east.

I don't think any rational person would come away from that with an understanding that America had just made a promise that NATO would never expand eastwards, for example, Eduard Shervardnadze whose name is on your screenshot underneath Gorbachev.

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/there-was-no-promise-not-to-enlarge-nato/

“I was in those meetings, and Gorbachev has [also] said there was no promise not to enlarge NATO,” Zoellick recalls. Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, later president of Georgia, concurred, he says. Nor does the treaty on Germany’s unification include a limit on NATO enlargement. Those facts have undermined one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine — that the United States had agreed that former Warsaw Pact nations would never become part of the North Atlantic security alliance.

Or Gorbachev himself

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/

Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”

This is a clumsy and shitty attempt at pro putinist fascist propaganda.

The reason it's bad propaganda is because, in order to believe this, you must also believe that east european nations have no sovereign decision making agency and must follow the russia. If a person doesn't already believe that eastern europe must obey the russia, then they will not be convinced by this shitty propaganda which holds that the russia must be consulted on who is allowed to join NATO.

It's a bad faith, out of context edit that exploits your absolute lack of curiosity about what a "pagina 6" is and what was really talked about. The russian participants have disavowed your interpretation of this conversation. Where was that context in your single shitty image macro? When were you going to mention that your interpretation of four lines of this long conversation is totally disavowed by the russian participants?

[–]JewsAreOfColor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It’s the truth, and you know it, you racist, fucking cracker. All anti-Russian propaganda is hate speech by the West to manufactured consent for terrorism.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You have left me twenty five replies in the last two days. Is everything okay?

[–]JewsAreOfColor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shut the fuck up you racist fucking cracker and stop posting imperialist terrorist propaganda to justify your racist cracker wars for oil. Go to the fucking uKKKraine since you worship the literal Neo-Nazis who run it.

Oh, and there was no Holodomor. That’s just another fascist lie those dirty fucking stinking uKKKraniaNAZI terrorist scum made up to justify killing Jews, Gays, and RUSSIANS.