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Baker's 1990 remark was made during the German reunification negotiations and refers to East Germany. Later the USSR agreed that E. Germany can join NATO, see Art. 5.3: https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201696/volume-1696-I-29226-English.pdf Soviet leader Gorbachev described the notion that the West misled Russia about NATO expansion as a "myth”: https://x.com/splendid_pete/status/1650735533826375680
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