The Ukraine War Began in 1990: U.S.'s Baker to Russia's Gorbachev: NATO Would Expand 'Not an Inch'

☆ NATO = Club of Rome (Club of Edomites and Ishmaelites) – Esau is the Ancestor of Rome

➡ In 1949 there were 12 NATO member nations and now there are 32
➡ Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024

👹 The “Warrior” Gene (aggressive, bloodthirsty, greedy, risk-taking, hostile, warring, rape, violent and murder behavior) Exemplified in Esau and Ishmael

☪ The Union of Ishmael and Esau that is shaking the world continues!
❖ People of the flesh are united in persecuting those of the spirit!

Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner.

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu).

🛑 1949

Meant to unite ideologically likeminded cultures—namely, those who espouse democracy and liberalism—the North Atlantic Treaty was ratified in 1949, with 12 signatories. Listed alphabetically, they were:

• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• France
• Iceland
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Portugal
• The United Kingdom
• The United States

Each of the twelve members agreed to the 14 articles outlined in the treaty. Any country wishing to join the Alliance must meet the economic and military strength requirements. The decision to add a new member state must be unanimously approved by the existing members.

NATO has now gone through nine rounds of enlargement:

🛑 1952

Seven years after its establishment, NATO expanded for the first time just south of the Black Sea:

• Greece
• Turkey

Allies in Name Alone

🛑 1955

• West Germany

When German reunification occurred in 1990, the former East Germany was also welcomed into the Alliance.

🛑 1982

• Spain

🛑 1999

At this point, we must mention the Warsaw Pact—the Soviet Union’s response to and equivalent of NATO. In total, there were 8 members of the Warsaw Pact. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, so did the Warsaw Pact, and the Cold War ended.

Also noteworthy: Yugoslavia (in southeast Europe) collapsed in 1992—dissolving into 6 successor states; some of which would also be interested in joining NATO. Yugoslavia was not aligned with NATO nor the Warsaw Pact, hence acting as a “buffer” between the alliances.

No longer obliged to the Warsaw Pact, former Soviet allies turned their eyes toward NATO. Three former Warsaw Pact members were admitted into NATO:

• The Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia)
• Hungary
• Poland

🛑 2004

2004 brought the largest increase in NATO members since the Alliance’s foundation. Perhaps even more notable, though, is republics formerly of the Soviet Union were now joining (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).

• Bulgaria (formerly of the Warsaw Pact)
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Romania (formerly of the Warsaw Pact)
• Slovakia
• Slovenia (successor to Yugoslavia)

🛑 2009

In 2009, NATO’s foothold in East Europe grew firmer:

• Albania (formerly of the Warsaw Pact)
• Croatia (successor to Yugoslavia)

🛑 2017 and 2020

These additions to NATO are both successor states to Yugoslavia:

• Montenegro (in 2017)
• North Macedonia (in 2020)

🛑 2023 and 2024

The Russo-Ukrainian War, and the escalation of which beginning on February 24, 2022, brought NATO’s growth into the foreground of foreign policy debates at the time. Russia’s full-scale invasion also prompted Finland and Sweden to officially apply and were eventually accepted into the alliance.

• Finland (in 2023)
• Sweden (in 2024)