According to the Russians, Moscow made oral agreements with Washington, London and Paris that, in exchange for allowing Germany to reunite and then join NATO, the Western powers vowed NOT to extend the alliance into the former Communist states. They agreed to a neutral buffer zone across Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The West lied. Precisely the opposite occurred.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/eric-margolis/how-we-betrayed-russia/
