DISINFO: The US controls the European elections and favours only specific candidates
SUMMARY
Overseas masters find it important to promote their puppets, like Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and Joseph Borrell, to the European Parliament. Conservative politicians with different views from the policies of American globalists (LGBT propaganda, green agenda, and total Russophobia), are to be prevented from becoming MEPs. Candidates not favoured by Washington are labelled as ‘Russian agents’ and otherwise discredited.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about ‘Russophobia’ and ‘lost sovereignty’, presenting EU key political figures and the EU as a whole as US puppets. They are spread in the context of the European Parliament elections to be held on 6 to 9 June 2024. Read our analysis on the key tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by pro-Kremlin disinformers in connection with the European Parliament elections.
Pro-Kremlin outlets regularly portray European states or the EU itself as vassals, puppet states or colonies of the US and NATO. See our analysis of the Kremlin's claims about the EU's lost sovereignty. The US does not control EU countries or the EU as a whole. EU Member States are sovereign countries and make sovereign decisions about their own security and foreign policies, including relations with Russia.
The European Union is a sovereign entity, created by the voluntary initiative of European nations, and it has its own, independent foreign policy. Its citizens are directly represented in the European Parliament and Member States are represented in the European Council and the Council of the EU.
A predominantly negative perception of Russia among the populations of EU countries and their elected representatives stems from Russia's aggressive foreign policies, notably the large-scale invasion of Ukraine. For example, public polls conducted in 2023 across 24 EU countries revealed that a median of 82% of adults hold an unfavorable view of Russia
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.
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