DISINFO: Nazi Ukraine has enabled the US to enslave Europe to Washington’s imperialist desires

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DISINFO: Nazi Ukraine has enabled the US to enslave Europe to Washington’s imperialist desires

SUMMARY

The Nazi Banderist regime in Ukraine has enabled the United States to enslave Europe to Washington’s imperialist desires.

The explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines and the proxy war in Ukraine have secured the strategic goal of the United States and its NATO representative: to keep the Germans (Europeans) in check, the Americans inside and the Russians outside.

Millions of lives have been destroyed in this “great game” of American imperialist deception, and the proxy war in Ukraine threatens to turn into a third nuclear world war.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative portraying Ukraine as a Nazi puppet state used by the US as tool in a proxy war against Russia as well as a disinformation narrative claiming that the US sabotaged the NS 1 and NS 2 gas pipelines.

These claims serve to deflect responsibility from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically elected president and parliament. The country's sovereignty has been violated only as a result of continuous acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces since 2014, culminating with the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine starting on 24 February 2022.

Labelling Russia’s adversaries as Nazis is a very frequently used pro-Kremlin disinformation technique, and has been used by Russia to try to justify the invasion of Ukraine by portraying it as a “denazification operation”. Russia spent years preparing the information battleground prior to its full-scale invasion, with the framing of Ukraine and its government as a “Nazi junta” being one of its most prominent disinformation features. Read a more detailed debunk here, as well as our analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism" and Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest.

The US does not control the EU countries or the EU as a whole. EU Member States are sovereign countries and make sovereign decisions about their security and foreign policies, including on their relations with Russia. The decisions in the EU are made by the directly elected European Parliament, the European Commission, and the European Council (the governments of the 27 EU countries).

The EU and the US are close partners and allies and have similar visions on many international issues, including Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. The EU and the US are unanimous in supporting Ukraine and providing it with military, technical and economic assistance.

Russia is the only country responsible for the invasion of Ukraine. It has been coming up with different manipulative explanations and false pretexts for its aggression since the beginning of its hostilities.

While the question of who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines remains unresolved, investigations from German and US media, Germany’s prosecutor office and other European police investigators point to the involvement of a recreational yacht called ‘Andromeda’ manned by a Ukrainian person. German officials have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man identified as Volodymyr Z. as a main suspect. Nothing of what has been publicly released in these investigations points to any possible US participation.

Read similar cases claiming that US blew up Nord Stream 2, that The West is waging a proxy war in Ukraine to wear down Russia, that Ukraine is a neo-Nazi Russophobic state, that the conflict in Ukraine is a Western proxy war against Russia, or that Kyiv is cannon fodder for US interests and that The US destroyed Nord Stream 2 to keep Europe dependent on expensive US gas.

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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