Putin says NATO has deceived Russia

Russia had to predict geopolitical changes across the world after Germany's union, but was unable to do so, “losing land under its feet unilaterally”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview for the documentary “WorldR (2018x3>.

Not only have we contributed to Germany's unification and we have withdrawn our troops, but we have withdrawn the forces of other Eastern European countries, expecting that NATO will not exist with the outcome of the Warsaw Agreement, or at least it will no longer expand, as we were told at that time”, Putin said.

As it noted, that in the end did not happen, “and found that geopolitical war is under the cover of ideological tensions”.

Putin has said that the wave of NATO's expansion to the US east and what followed is in the conflict with NATO air strikes against the former Yugoslavia, which passed without UN Security Council sanctions, military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the transition of religious extremism to the Northern Caucasus.

These have suddenly occurred one after another, although we should have waited. However, we have shown inadequacy and have failed to understand what will happen to the country and the whole world after our unilateral withdrawal”. Putin said.

He has stressed that many East Germany allies in the Western bloc “have questioned joining West Germany, and that allegations have also been voiced in the US”.

In Russia this was not contradictory. Russia has considered that if the German people wanted unity, then it would be against productive, harmful, and unfair to prevent it. And so Russia helped them in this”, it's over Putin.