Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9912794
While a US commitment that NATO would not expand towards Russia was made during talks with the Soviets in 1990, and remains a topic of heated dispute, no undertaking was written into the treaty on German reunification.
nothing of that all was in writing, just some people said off the record that maybe perhaps that’d be the right thing to do. russia isn’t a peer adversary to NATO, russia isn’t even a peer adversary to your average scummy ISP