DISINFO: NATO spent $5 billion on 2014 coup in Kyiv
SUMMARY
The collective West was always scared by the Russian military power that resists its unipolar world hegemony. Its sword arm is NATO. NATO's principle is what Adolf Hitler called the expansion of the ''vital space” (lebensraum). Hence, NATO expands eastwards near Russia. To expand further, in 2014, the US with the CIA supported a coup in Kyiv, spending 5 billion dollars to place a puppet that they could control and force later to enter NATO in order to spy on Russia.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative portraying Ukraine as a puppet state and using a misleading historical parallel between Adolf Hitler and today’s NATO.
Die Zeit provided perspective on the $5 billion spent by USAID (not NATO) on democracy development over 23 years, clarifying that these funds did not support the EuroMaidan movement.
As this database consistently emphasises, contrary to claims by the Kremlin, there was no coup in Ukraine in 2014. Moreover, the United States did not play any role in the events that unfolded
Pro-Kremlin outlets falsely portray the Euromaidan revolution as a coup d’état, the popular demonstrations that began in Kyiv in November of 2013 and brought hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on to the streets to protest against a political decision of Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which at the last minute withdrew from a long-negotiated political association and free trade pact with the EU, choosing instead to accept a $15 billion economic bailout to Russia.
The claim about NATO expansion misrepresents the process of NATO enlargement. NATO does not expand, but considers the applications of candidate countries that want to join exercising their free will to decide alliance affiliation. NATO's enlargement is not aimed against Russia. Comparing NATO's enlargement to the Third Reich's war of conquest is historically nonsensical and seeks to label Kremlin adversaries as Nazis.
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