This Is How The Woke View Themselves
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Whatever "one inch" are you talking about? Is it paraphrased from some treaty? Any document or even just a declaration?
There were no "color revolutions in Central Asia". And NATO was never interested in Central Asian countries other than Afghanistan, other than a short lived American affair with the Manas Transit Center (for the war effort in Afghanistan 20 years ago), and even Afghanistan has been abandoned.
Firstly, https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early. Secondly, Kazakhstan.
And you know what? Shevardnadze himself soon became president of Georgia and began courting NATO to accept his new and independent country. Like here: https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2002/s021122h.htm This is how irrelevant is what they told Shevardnadze in 1990 when everything was completely different.
And you know what else? I just found a 2009 interview where Shevardnadze himself will explain everything to you (also about Gorbachev, who in fact wanted to "encircle Russia" totally by having the Soviet Union join NATO once the Cold War was over):
Gorbachev was a Soviet leader, surely he didn't talk about the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's relations with NATO during this Cold War meeting. As relevant as the Ribbentrop-Molotov if they talk about "Soviet borders".
What "secondly, Kazakhstan"?
What part of "not one inch" is unclear exactly?
And secondly the color revolution in Kazakhstan that Russia just put down. Every boomer war hawk has been crying about it, you couldn't miss it.
And yes, it was always independent countries courting NATO to be allowed to join (and Georgia sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq for that, and still was refused - Ukraine had also sent their troops to these NATO missions). There was never any sort of NATO's drive to "encircle" any country ever since the end of the Cold War, the expansion on the side of the organisation has been extremely relucant and we in Poland also had to work hard to be allowed to achieve the accession to the pact. It took over 8 years of asking: https://www.gov.pl/web/national-defence/poland-in-nato-20-years
During your completely irrelevant "one inch" talk, we were still in the Warsaw Pact (named after our capital). As a satellite of the Soviet Union, the country that haven't existed for 30 years, and is now replaced by Ukraine, among others.
What in https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2002/s021122h.htm also with the very same Shevardnadze "is unclear exactly" to you in the completely new situation now after the end of the Soviet Union, and the Warsaw Pact too, when literally everything has changed?
What "color" was this "color revolution"?
And in the case I'd you didn't read:
Looks to me Shevardnadze was, let's say, much less interested even 20 years ago in your stupid "one inch" quote someone told him in the completely bygone era of a completely different geopolitical reality than you are now in 2022 somehow and for some reason. But you be you.