DISINFO: Western tanks to Ukraine part of "Drang nach Osten" project
SUMMARY
The supplies of the Leopard II German tanks to Kyiv is a new level of US-managed military escalation in Europe. This is a global project to revive American exceptionalism at the expense of allies and foes. Berlin is ready to push Europe to WWIII. The EU supports the war against Russia. Washington also does not rule out supplies of M1A2 Abrams tanks to foster the "Drang nach Osten" project. Nato is de facto fighting in Ukraine and European armies are being trained to invade Russia.
RESPONSE
This article contains recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the alleged lost sovereignty of the EU and its member states (more examples), alleged Western aggressiveness towards Russia, and the US / western countries as Nazi.
This is an attempt to deflect any Russian responsibility for the unjustified wide-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The Russian war against Ukraine began in 2014 with the Russian illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's military involvement and support of separatists in Donbas.
Pro-Kremlin outlets often portray European states as vassals, puppet states of the US and NATO and discredit the West through wrongful comparison with Nazi Germany. On 19 January 2023, the Diplomatic Service of the European Union issued a Statement by the High Representative Josep Borrell on this matter, following manipulative comments by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov accusing “the West” of seeing a “final solution” for Russia. The statement called them “entirely misplaced, disrespectful and trampl(ing) on the memory of the six million Jewish people, and other victims, who were systematically murdered in the Holocaust”.
The EU and West does not wage a war against Russia but supports Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence, in accordance with the UN Charter Article 51, to stop Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
NATO does not fight in Ukraine yet it condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia's brutal and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine and some NATO countries are supporting Ukraine with weapons to help it uphold its right for self-defence.
See disinformation cases claiming that Germany does not provide Leopard tanks to oppose American colonisation of Europe, that NATO is leading humanity to WWIII, and earlier disinformation cases misusing the “Drang nach Osten” term.