Fact checking: Social media users are claiming the West broke a 1990 treaty undertaking not to expand the NATO security alliance closer to Russia’s borders. It's false.

0x815@feddit.de · 8 months ago

Fact checking: Social media users are claiming the West broke a 1990 treaty undertaking not to expand the NATO security alliance closer to Russia’s borders. It's false.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 8 months ago

Well hey, if we’re gonna be bandying about geopolitical bullshit like that:

The last country that was actually a part of the Soviet Union was the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Thus, it stands to reason that the USSR’s permanent UNSC council seat should have technically devolved to Kazakhstan, as it’s the closest thing there actually was to a successor state of the USSR.

Scrof@sopuli.xyz · 8 months ago

Nah, that would imply that the USSR was actually a union of republics and not a Moscow’s little colonial empire.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 8 months ago

You’re missing the point of the exercise: to be geopolitically creative and weasely.

Fact checking: Social media users are claiming the West broke a 1990 treaty undertaking not to expand the NATO security alliance closer to Russia’s borders. It's false.

Fact checking: Social media users are claiming the West broke a 1990 treaty undertaking not to expand the NATO security alliance closer to Russia’s borders. It's false.

False treaty claims attempt to rewrite history