> Myth 03: ‘Russia was promised that NATO would not enlarge’
> This particular myth argues that the West deceived Russia by reneging on its promises at the end of the Cold War not to enlarge NATO
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> Its chief lament was that several leaders of NATO countries in early 1990 had ruled out the possibility of NATO enlargement, and that the West had misled Russia. As Russia’s former foreign minister, Yevgeny Primakov, noted later with regret, there was no legal force to the statements by Western leaders even though, in his view, legally based commitments would have been possible at the time.
So it sounds like the myth is no myth and promises were made, but there were no legal guarantees given instead? Am I misunderstanding something?
> This particular myth argues that the West deceived Russia by reneging on its promises at the end of the Cold War not to enlarge NATO
then further down
> Its chief lament was that several leaders of NATO countries in early 1990 had ruled out the possibility of NATO enlargement, and that the West had misled Russia. As Russia’s former foreign minister, Yevgeny Primakov, noted later with regret, there was no legal force to the statements by Western leaders even though, in his view, legally based commitments would have been possible at the time.
So it sounds like the myth is no myth and promises were made, but there were no legal guarantees given instead? Am I misunderstanding something?