Even if the US Secretary of State told Gorbachev that NATO would never allow a country in Eastern Europe to join NATO.....so what? It was a negotiation, there was no formal agreement, the Secretary of State is not the US President and doesn't have the authority to formally speak for NATO like that. And even if he did, when they later made an official deal, which Gorbachev agreed to, it completely contradicted what was said in that meeting. The "not one inch" in the official 2 + 4 treaty was only until 1994, which was when Soviet troops were planned to no longer occupy Eastern Germany.
You are wrong and I gave the link in my post #4359 above in this thread. It refers to the minutes of the meeting of the political directors of the foreign ministries of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, held in Bonn on March 6, 1991. The topic was security in Central and Eastern Europe. It is clear from the document that the British, Americans, Germans and French agreed that Eastern European membership in NATO was "unacceptable".
We cannot offer Poland and others NATO membership.
Everything you said above on the subject of NATO's eastward expansion is a lie.