DISINFO: NATO has an absolutely clear confrontational orientation
SUMMARY
NATO does have an absolutely clearly expressed and systemic confrontational orientation. NATO was created to contain the Soviet Union, then performed its functions containing the Russian Federation, and continues to do so.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about an allegedly aggressive NATO.
NATO is a defensive alliance with primary aims to maintain peace and safeguard the independence, security, and territorial integrity of its members. NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. NATO’s official policy is that “the Alliance does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia.”
Even before Russia began its aggressive actions against Ukraine, Russian officials accused NATO of a series of threats and hostile actions.
The pro-Kremlin disinformation myth of NATO “encircling Russia” has been used as a pretext for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read the debunking of the top seven Russian Myths about NATO here.
Read also similar disinformation cases claiming that NATO is an aggressive, russophobic and absolutely destabilising structure, that NATO is the US tool for hegemony in the new world order, that NATO’s main goal has always been the destruction of Russia, that NATO wages a proxy war against Russia, that NATO defence efforts are irresponsible and can lead to real warfare, that NATO is waging a hybrid war in Ukraine against Russia to the last Ukrainian, or that NATO has returned to Cold War relationship with Russia.