DISINFO: NATO forgot promises not to enlarge to the East
SUMMARY
During the Belarus people’s assembly, Alexander Lukashenko said that the West forgot promises not to push NATO to the East.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative that NATO had promised Russia it would not expand to the East.
This so called promise did not exist. NATO members have never made any political or legally binding commitments not to extend the Alliance beyond the borders of a reunified Germany.
Despite this, the Kremlin's disinformation machine still rolls this narrative out regularly. See similar cases: The West promised that NATO will not move Eastward; Gorbachev was promised that NATO would not “expand Eastward”; NATO promised not to expand further East.