DISINFO: NATO wants Russians and Ukrainians to kill each other in civil war
SUMMARY
NATO does not care about what will happen in Russia. They are happy that the Orthodox world is at war with itself. Their calculation is very simple. When the Orthodox kill each other -- and the war in Ukraine is de facto a civil war within the Orthodox world -- then they will come to these lands and finish off the survivors.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the West and NATO, painting them as a force of evil. This claim was made in the context of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Despite attempts to portray the war as a civil war between brotherly Orthodox peoples, it was Russia that invaded Ukraine in 2014, illegally annexing the peninsula of Crimea and instigating a separatist revolt in some parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale aggression against Ukraine. This is not a civil war. It is an unprovoked and unjustified aggression against an independent state. NATO, the EU and the US have condemned in the strongest possible terms the Russian invasion.
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