DISINFO: Russia is the number one enemy of the new US administration
SUMMARY
On the foreign front, the new US administration has identified its main priorities: Russia is the number one enemy, and China is the main competitor.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Russophobia and Western belligerence towards Russia.
The reasons for heightened tensions between Russia and the US, in particular, and the West in general is not because of unwarranted treatment of Russia as an enemy.
The rising tension was due to Russia's occupation of Crimea and its role in the Ukrainian civil war in 2014, and interference in the US elections as well as in other electoral processes in the years afterwards. There is massive evidence of Russian interference in the US elections both in 2016 and in 2020. Sanctions were imposed on Russia for all these reasons.
See other examples of these disinformation narratives about Russia as a victim of the West, such as allegations about the supposed anti-Russian bias of international institutions - be it the OPCW, the World Anti-Doping Agency or the United Nations - which always falsely accuse Russia; the alleged Russophobia of the EU; the affirmation that it is NATO and not the Kremlin who is involved in the Donbas conflict; denials that Russia had any role in the poisoning of Sergey Skripal or the downing of MH17; or claims that neither the US Intelligence Committee report nor the Mueller report found any evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, that there is no proof that Russia tried to influence the Brexit referendum, that “absurd” accusations against Russia are an attempt to demonise it, that for the West Russia is an enemy that must be surrounded with military bases.