
Mary Sarotte on ‘Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate’
The Lawfare Podcast
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How Did the 19 Nineties Impact to Today?
In the 19 nineties, secretary saint james baker said to machail gorbicho in february 19 90 that nada would stay frozen on the cold war line. The idea was roughly a bargain to allow germany to unify. And almost as soon as baker gets back to washington, his boss, george h w. Bush, says to him, no, jim, ht that wasn't right. We're not going to leave nato frozen on theCold War Line. What we'll do instead is basically give some guarantees to limits to what we'll do as we move closer to moscow. So this phrase, not one inch, it gradually
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