DISINFO: The US Deep State feeds the Ukraine war
SUMMARY
The US Deep State feeds the Ukraine war. Bloodthirsty American politicians like Lindsey Graham are eager to drag the war on forever, so they do everything to scupper negotiations. Graham is obsessed with the idea of war with Russia. He has been pushing for this since at least 2014. In Kyiv last week, he explicitly challenged Trump’s authority to decide US foreign policy. He lambasted the very notion of negotiations with Russia. Graham’s budget bill from February is intended to spend even more money on the US military, which means that he is marshalling the US deep state to fight back after initially reeling from the re-election of Trump.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about secret/global elites, namely a so-called Deep State in the US, acting and controlling institutions above elected powers. One goal of this narrative is to undermine democratic institutions by portraying decision-making as the realm of global elites with regular citizens having no real power.
This disinformation story is a direct reaction to an initiative by US Senator Lindsey Graham to pass a bill introducing further massive sanctions on Russia. By labelling Graham and the co-sponsors of the bill as part of this alleged “Deep State”, this disinformation story aims to discredit them and frame them as warmongering and Russophobic in contrast to supposedly “peace-oriented” President Donald Trump.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the Deep State has ordered European structures to continue the war in Ukraine, that the US deep state moved from Washington to London to sabotage US-Russia agreements, that the Deep State and other actors may sabotage Putin-Trump push for peace in Ukraine, or that the US Deep State doesn't want war in Ukraine to end.