Well neither situation has materialized, so how long do you park? Maybe they're trying to break the Canadian record. Do the vehicles in the convoy have horns?
Another thing to bring up is was Crimea a part of Ukranian territory at the time the memorandum was signed? (I believe it was) then Putin's annexation of Crimea by force in 2014 was also a violation.
This is all irrelevant. The Soviet Union no longer exists.Document Number 119 of the Gorbachev Foundation archives contains a detailed transcript of the discussion between Soviet General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev and US Secretary of State James Baker on February 9, 1990. This document shows that James Baker repeatedly assured Gorbachev that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would not expand.
"Baker: If that happens, our troops will return home. We will leave any country that does not desire our presence. The American people have always had a strong position favoring this. However, if the current West German leadership is at the head of a unified Germany then they have said to us they will be against our withdrawal. And the last point. NATO is the mechanism for securing the U.S. presence in Europe. If NATO is liquidated, there will be no such mechanism in Europe. We understand that not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction."
He goes on to mention it not expanding three more times.
So revisionist(or rather what is your source for saying that?). He certainly was not a founding member of WEF(1973) and was to old already to ever be in the young global leaders program.
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I can give probably 20 times Russia was told NATO would not expand.It should be a matter of a simple google search as well,but I am actually unsure about that because I use several proxies that allow me to search from other countries(and rarely with google).
Genscher met with James Baker, prior to Baker’s February 9, 1990 meeting with Gorbachev, stressing the importance of assuring Gorbachev that NATO would not exploit events by expanding eastward. Baker embraced this policy, emphatically telling Gorbachev – three times during their meeting – that NATO would not expand eastward. Baker told Gorbachev “Americans understand the importance for the USSR and Europe of guarantees that not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.”
US and NATO members continued to assure the Soviet Union that it would not expand eastward. In March 1991, British Prime Minister John Major reaffirmed to Soviet officials that there would be no NATO expansion to the east. The United States and other countries continued to make similar assurances, and during a meeting in July 1991, Manfred Worner, the Secretary General of NATO, told Soviet officials that NATO was firmly against any expansion.
Mine the highway, but I guess nobody thought of that. Blow it up and make them drive in the mud. Or, maybe they did and that's one reason progress is so slow.
All the photos I’ve seen of that convoy is trucks sitting 3 to 4 wide on a road. Not moving and no armor in the photos. To use Brad’s terminology I think it is the tail of the Russian Army. Just sitting there parked. The Russians don’t handle support very well and that’s the only reason I can think of as to why the convoy hasn’t moved. Those trucks are full of food, ammo and spare parts for the combat arms units roaming or possibly lost in the countryside. Just my two cents.Well neither situation has materialized, so how long do you park? Maybe they're trying to break the Canadian record. Do the vehicles in the convoy have horns?
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Incidentally, the treaty with the Russians that retired the Pershing II starting in 1988, governing intermediate range land based missiles, was the very one that Trump left in 2018 because the Russians were not honoring it. The INF treaty limited all land based intermediate range missiles to a range of less than 310 miles
Meh.
Based on this story the convoy is 18 miles from the Capital.
So, you have to close 16 miles, hoping no one will kill you.Based on this story the convoy is 18 miles from the Capital.
40-mile-long Russian invasion convoy visible from space in new 3D satellite view (video)
You can get a better sense of the convoy's massive scope.www.space.com
Well, if you set out some mines and blow up some bridges maybe you could funnel them into an ambush. Providing the convoy actually approached.
Point taken.
