The origin of Russia’s resentment toward NATO enlargement can be traced to February 1990,
when then-US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would expand “not one inch eastward.”
In September of that year, as part of the Two Plus Four Agreement that permitted German reunification, the Soviets consented only to NATO membership for Germany. Robert Gates, who became CIA director the following year, admitted that the Russians were “misled.”
As a result, while Leningrad was 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers) from NATO’s eastern edge at the end of the Cold War, St. Petersburg is now less than 100 miles away.
Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, Project Syndicate 4 February 2022
Gränsen mellan EU och Ryssland går mitt igenom staden Narva
Här har vi en bild då det senast begav sig där för oss.
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2015/01/nato-eller-nordic-battle-group-vid-narva.html
An important component of NATO’s strengthened deterrence and defence posture is military presence in the eastern and south-eastern parts of Alliance territory.
Allies implemented the 2016 Warsaw Summit decisions to establish NATO’s forward presence in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and to develop a tailored forward presence in the Black Sea region.
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