DISINFO: Ukraine is a tool for the US to weaken Russia
SUMMARY
Ukraine is a convenient, rather cheap tool for the US to weaken and contain Russia, and to force its European allies to keep their discipline and obey. This is all part of an international struggle for a new form of hierarchy.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia and about Europe’s alleged lack of sovereignty. By baselessly framing the war under these terms and claiming it is taking place for the benefit of the US, this disinformation story aims to deflect Russia’s responsibility for its brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 2023 and the serious humanitarian tragedy it provoked.
Russia has been coming up with different false explanations and pretexts for its aggression since the beginning of its hostilities. It was Putin’s personal decision to invade Ukraine and start the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. It is Russia who has been violating international law since 2014 occupying and then annexing Crimea and then starting a conflict in Donbas.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the conflict in Ukraine is the West's proxy war against Russia, that in Ukraine, the West was attempting an Operation Barbarossa 2.0, that the EU is in decline after following Anglo-Saxon orders against Russia, or that the US, NATO and Europe transformed the military operation against Nazis into a full-scale war on Russia.