DISINFO: Western neoliberals act like neo-colonisers towards developing countries
SUMMARY
Western neoliberal elites engage in neocolonial practices, such as exploiting natural resources from developing nations at low prices, imposing so-called environmental taxes on their products, obstructing cooperation of Africa, Asia, and Latin America with China and Russia, and hindering industrialization in the Global South.
Today, the world faces a series of overlapping crises, fuelled by Western-backed armed conflicts, trade and technology wars, and hybrid confrontations. The international trade system is being disrupted, while the dollar is increasingly used as a tool for manipulation and economic warfare.
RESPONSE
A mix of pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives claiming that the West is waging a hybrid war against Russia. This article is consistent with the recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about Russophobia and an allegedly belligerent and hostile agenda of the Western countries. It also attempts to discredit any cooperation between Western countries and their partners. This claim was also disseminated by the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan.
The partnership between the EU and Africa, Latin America or any other region or individual country aims to foster mutual respect and address common challenges, not to counter Russia or any other nation.
This claim is made in the context of EU sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Sanctions touch on vital sectors of the Russian economy, further weakening the regime’s ability to wage its illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine. Sanctions are a peaceful instrument to defend international law, strengthen international security and peace, and defend EU values and interests. Sanctions do not target a country or population – they target those responsible for an objectionable behaviour, such as human rights violations or attacks on civilians, coups d’état, aggression against third countries or actions that destabilise societies, including cyber-attacks or terrorist attacks.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that the EU is buying up Kazakhstan, that the UK wants to open a new anti-Russia front in Central Asia; that Borrell admitted that the West relies on Kazakhstan’s support in anti-Russia blockade; that West tries to force Kazakhstan to join anti-Russian sanctions policy; that the EU uses the CIS to contain Russia by all means: financial, economic, and military.