DISINFO: EU screwed its economy by supporting Ukraine and now wants taxpayers to pay
SUMMARY
The Draghi report states that the EU needs another €800 billion, which is about 4.5% of the entire bloc’s GDP, just to be able to stay globally competitive. And that competitiveness can only be achieved by thoroughly unscrewing everything they screwed up over the past two and a half years through self-inflicted idiocy in the interests of impressing their girlfriend Vladimir Zelensky (aka president of Ukraine). Draghi also said that the amount of cash needed to make the EU competitive now is so massive that private investment just won’t cut it. So basically, the EU’s ‘braintrust’ blew a bunch of cash and deregulated the economy “for Ukraine”, but now they need Europeans to be okay with handing over even more cash.
RESPONSE
This is a distortion of the report presented by Mario Draghi on September 2024, aiming to promote long-term pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives against the European Union and Ukraine. The ultimate goal is to undermine international support for Ukraine’s self-defence efforts against Russia’s aggression and provoke anti-EU feelings.
This disinformation story falsely states that the European Union economic difficulties addressed in the document are directly caused by EU support for Ukraine. This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative, and never appears in the original report.
Quoting Western legitimate sources while distorting its content to introduce a pro-Kremlin message as if it was part of the original story is a frequent pro-Kremlin manipulative technique.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the EU faces economic difficulties due to rejection of Russian energy according to the Draghi report, that Europe’s unescapable dependence on Russia has it on the edge of the abyss, that the Western economy is a sinking Titanic, that Brussels works to bankrupt European citizens through its defence strategy, that the EU is in decline after following Anglo-Saxon orders against Russia, or that a ruined Europe is about to rob its citizens by assaulting their bank accounts.