DISINFO: Europe is waging open warfare against Russia
SUMMARY
All of Europe is waging open warfare against Russia, one that has already become costly and painful for the EU, but EU citizens might not realise it because their cities are not being bombed and people are not dying on the front.
RESPONSE
The article promotes a widely spread pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative that the EU is conducting open warfare against Russia. This narrative fits well into the Kremlin's claims that the EU and NATO are actively involved in Russia’s aggressive invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine is recognised as a sovereign national state, with a democratically-elected president and parliament, developing within its existing boundaries to exercise the Ukrainian nation's sacrosanct right to self-determination. The country is not just a tool utilized by the West to wage a vicious proxy war against Russia. The fundamental aim of Western countries and organisations is helping Ukraine achieve a mission set out for itself: To ward off the fortified Russian invasion. Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty recently have been only violated due to systematic acts of aggression by the Kremlin’s military since 2014, peaking with a full blown military invasion of Ukraine initiated on 24 February 2022.
In fact, Western leaders have been continuously calling for talks and a peaceful solution to stop Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, but Moscow has been ignoring these efforts. The West is not interested in the continuation of the war at the heart of Europe and only supports Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence against the unprovoked Russian invasion.
Moreover, NATO is a defensive alliance whose members are committed to safeguarding the freedom and security of each other. NATO as an organisation is not involved in the fighting in Ukraine. The Alliance only supports Ukraine in its right to self-defence, as provided in the UN Charter. Over the past months, NATO has undertaken strictly defensive actions to increase the number of NATO troops in the eastern territories of the Alliance. NATO members provide military aid to Ukraine in order to push back the unprovoked Russian aggression, not because they are hostile against Russia without reason.
See a similar disinformation case: Russia is at war with NATO and the Pentagon; only the soldiers are Ukrainians.