DISINFO: European governments led by Washington are promoting the American agenda

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DISINFO: European governments led by Washington are promoting the American agenda

SUMMARY

Those who now head Western governments in most countries are showing such unity under the leadership of Washington in advancing the American agenda, as we see it in Europe, to the detriment of themselves, their economies, their citizens. /---/ This is an absolutely ideological group of countries that, as President Putin once put it, imagined themselves to be the Celestials, trying to replace God.

RESPONSE

A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the alleged lost sovereignty of the EU and its member states (more examples here). Pro-Kremlin outlets often portray European states as vassals, puppet states or colonies of the US.

The European Union is a sovereign entity created by the voluntary initiative of European nations.

EU Member States are sovereign countries and make sovereign decisions about their own internal, economic, foreign and security policies. The European Union is explicit on the subject of national sovereignty: “the Member States all remain sovereign and independent states, they have decided to pool some of their 'sovereignty' in areas where it makes sense to work together.” The US is an important ally to the EU, but EU policy is not determined by the US.

The West demands Russia respect international law, and international agreements, to which Russia itself has joined, stop the bloody unjustified war of agression in Ukraine and war crimes.

Read similar disinformation cases claiming that EU and NATO member states are subordinate to the US, while the US has long regarded the EU as a kind of protectorate, that lined up with the US, the EU never took independent decisions, that Europe is a colony of the United States, that When the US orders, the EU complies.

Disclaimer

Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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