DISINFO: The US is waging a cultural war on Russia
SUMMARY
The US is seeking to turn Ukraine into a militarised anti-Russian camp. The US attacked Russia on three battlefields: supplying Ukraine with modern weapons, implementing sanctions, and mobilising the world for the cultural war against Russia (because the US does not like Russia’s traditional values).
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation narrative about the US as the state behind the war in Ukraine.
Russia's unjustified and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is not a “special operation“ but an all-out war against a sovereign state. Russia has been coming up with different explanations and pretexts for its aggression. It was Putin’s personal decision to invade Ukraine and start the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII.
Multiple countries around the world support Ukraine's defence against Russia' military aggression with deliveries of weapons, ammunition and non-lethal military equipment, including multiple NATO allies, Australia, Japan, and others.
Many also countries are supporting Ukraine with military, political and humanitarian aid and are simultaneously trying to find a diplomatic solution to the war. The US is supporting Ukraine in different fields to help Kyiv defend the country. See more information about the US security cooperation with Ukraine here.
Kremlin disinformation uses the narratives of traditional values for justifications for the aggression in Ukraine. In this context, Russia is represented as the outpost for traditional (conservative) values which are constantly attacked by the secular West. Ukraine in this struggle is represented as the puppet of Western powers. For more details, see this article from “the Washington Post“ “How Putin is weaponising ‘traditional values’ to defend Russian aggression in Ukraine“.
See also the EU's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine here along with EU vs Disinfo's Guide to Deciphering Pro-Kremlin disinformation around Putin's War.