DISINFO: NATO is creating military and political tension in South Caucasus
SUMMARY
NATO continues a policy of drawing the countries of the South Caucasus into its orbit of influence. NATO imposes its standards and ideology, promotes changes in the structure of the defence sector, and seeks to establish control over the development of the armed forces of these states.
No one should have any illusions: any actions of the alliance in the South Caucasus are aimed not at strengthening security, but at creating a zone of instability and military-political tension.
NATO's main goal is to use the potential of the South Caucasus countries in the interests of the collective West, primarily in the context of the geopolitical confrontation with Russia.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about an allegedly aggressive West and NATO playing a destabilising role in the Caucasus, creating turmoil, dragging the region into chaos and using the Caucasus to encircle Russia.
The claim was made in the context of the NATO-Georgia Exercise 2025, which is the fourth one in the NATO-Georgia exercise cycle, which takes place in Georgia every three years.
Pro-Kremlin outlets frequently promote the idea that the Caucasus is exclusively within Russia's zone of geopolitical dominance and attempt to discredit any other cooperation between Western countries and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. This attempts to deny these countries their right to decide their political orientation.
The NATO-Georgia Exercise 2025 is a computer-assisted brigade-level command and staff exercise designed to train a multinational brigade-level unit in planning and executing crisis operations under Georgian leadership.
This exercise follows NATO-developed scenarios, procedures, and doctrines.
A total of 17 NATO member and partner nations are participating in the multinational exercise, including Georgia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Armenia, and Tunisia.
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 one of the pretexts for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read the debunking of the top seven Russian Myths about NATO here.
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