DISINFO: The US deep state moved from Washington to London to sabotage US-Russia agreements
SUMMARY
Trump's mission is to end this conflict as quickly as possible. On the other hand, for Trump, his main enemies now are not Russia, and not even China, but the deep state, which has now moved from Washington to London and is engaging in subversive activities from there to disrupt all agreements with Russia.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative designed to undermine trust in democratic institutions by dismissing them as "deep state" clandestine structures.
This narrative aims to show that unelected power structures control Western democracies and manipulate global events from behind the scenes. However, there is no credible evidence supporting the existence of a “deep state” in the US, UK or any other Western democracy. The idea is a pro-Kremlin political fiction weaponized to discredit functioning democratic systems.
Framing the UK as a new center for a US covert 'deep state' operation is provided with absolutely no evidence, and serves the age-old pro-Kremlin objective of shifting blame for the war of aggression against Ukraine from Russia to the UK and other Ukrainian allies.
In other words, according to pro-Kremlin logic, the conflict is not the result of Moscow’s decisions, such as the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but instead a plot to sabotage potential peace deals by Western powers. The continuation of the war, according to this logic, is also not the result of Russia's consistent rejection of peace proposals that would require it to withdraw from illegally occupied territories and respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, according to international law principles and UN General Assembly resolutions.
This message is part of a wider disinformation campaign framing possible US-Russia negotiations as the only acceptable ‘peace initiative’ regardless of the of Russia’s ultimatums, while denying any agency to Ukraine or its other allies. Pro-Kremlin disinformation has long tried to misrepresent the EU as the main obstacle for ‘peace’ in Ukraine.
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