DISINFO: Russia has not started a single war in the last 50 years
SUMMARY
The Americans have, in the last 50 years, started around 70 wars in pursuit of cheap petrol. Show us just one war which Russia started [in that period], at least one. Nothing of the sort ever happened.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative painting Russia as a benign, non-interfering state on the one hand, and various Western governments as jingoistic on the other. Soviet Russia engaged in military aggression at several occasions; against Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1979.
Even assuming modern-day Russia to be a separate political entity from the USSR, the country has been involved in several interstate wars over the past decades, most recently in Ukraine, but also in Moldova and Georgia. Russia has illegally annexed a part of sovereign Ukrainian territory and waged an undeclared armed conflict in the east of the country which has resulted in over 13,000 civilian deaths to date.