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(27,763 posts)Although it's argued that what was being discussed was the placement of NATO forces in the Eastern part of reunified Germany.
In any event, there were never any signed agreements, and the state involved in these negotiations hasn't existed since late 1991. The state known as the Russian Federation didn't exist, nor did an independent Ukrainian state.
Soviet security interests have not been operative since the Soviet state ceased to exist.
"Memoranda and assurances" mean nothing in international relations. Otherwise we would have gone to war with russia on the strength of the Budapest Memorandum which was far more explicit than anything that went on in the German reunification discussions, and involved countries that actually exist in the present day.
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