Disinfo: After Afghanistan, the US could give up on the Baltic states

Summary

The events in Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine showed that it is better not to hope to get help from the US in the critical situation.

The US also has interests in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. It is using these countries and could leave them as Afghanistan.

Disproof

The message contains clear manipulation. The events in Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine could be hard to compare, as well as the relations between the US and Baltic states have a different context.

Taliban came back to power in Afghanistan after the US and allies withdrew military forces earlier this year. As noted by US president Joe Biden: “We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. We did that. <...> Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy. Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland”. Biden added that the US got Afghanistan’s people a chance to determine their own future but could not provide them the will to fight for that future.

The Baltic states are democratic countries, members of the EU and NATO. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia participated together with the US in NATO's ISAF's mission in Afghanistan. The United States also fosters a robust and enduring security partnership with the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

See other examples of disinformation when the US is presented as a selfish, treacherous and unreliable partner: The EU should admit that the US is its sovereign; The US turns post-Soviet states into divided nations to use them as cannon fodder against Russia; Ukraine became a colony of the United States.

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  • Reported in: Issue 255
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 17/08/2021
  • Article language(s) Lithuanian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Russia, Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan
  • Keywords: Puppets, Military, security threat
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Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about censorship and control of the media in the West. By claiming that there is no freedom of the press and no freedom of expression in the West, this narrative seeks to discredit Western mainstream media and more importantly: Western liberal democracies.

It is not true, as the article’s claims, that in the West a kind of “Ministry of Propaganda” censors news and opinion that is unwelcome to the establishment or differs from “official narratives”. This claim does not reflect the reality of Western media, where a wide range of political opinion is represented. Media in pluralist democracies are not controlled and censored by the state, as happens in authoritarian regimes.