Disinfo: NATO is focused on threats that never come true

Summary

NATO is dreaming about influence in the World. It prepared to compete with China. NATO proclaimed challenges for the Euro-Atlantic region. The attendants of NATO summits every year are talking about the same threats and challenges but their prognosis never comes true, or real threats appear from very different directions and are linked to very different problems.

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Recurring disinformation about NATO, presenting the Alliance as focused on imaginary threats.

NATO is a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to protect its member states. The primary aim of the alliance is to maintain peace and safeguard the independence, security and territorial integrity of its members.

The Brussel Summit Communique, presented after the meeting of NATO heads in Belgium on 14 June 2021, mentioned multiply threats for the Euro-Atlantic region. Communique stressed “China’s growing influence and international policies” and mentioned these as a challenge. NATO promises to “engage China with a view to defending the security interests of the Alliance”. Among other threats, the document mentions cyber, hybrid, and asymmetric threats, including disinformation, also terrorism, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

See other cases when Kremlin-backed disinformation accused NATO of provocative behaviour, or that NATO is conducting aggressive anti-Russian operations or presenting the Alliance as the puppet of the US.

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  • Reported in: Issue 249
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 18/06/2021
  • Article language(s) Russian, Lithuanian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: China, Russia, Europe
  • Keywords: NATO, security threat
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Disinfo: The recent Polish diplomatic misfortunes is a sign of the return of the “Concert of Powers”

Poland is accused by the leading American politicians such as Barack Obama of being an undemocratic country. The USA makes strategic decisions such as the Nord Stream 2 sanctions over the head of Poland. We know well that the German sanctions imposed on Russia are being evaded – their trade is booming in such strategic spheres as energy. The Polish President Andrzej Duda did not have official meetings at the recent NATO’s summit what was a big blow to Polish diplomacy. The Polish Foreign Minister found out about the withdrawal of the Nord Stream 2 sanctions from the media…

All these developments confirm the process of return of the “concert of powers” concept and the division of the regional spheres of influence.

Jun 17, 2021
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This message presents the idea that the United States and Russia decided to “divide” the world into their “spheres of influence” as it was during the Cold War. It also promotes the idea that the USA and Russia will decide the “fate” of smaller countries by themselves (as it was assumed by the concept of the “Concert of Powers” in the XIX century).

For years, the Kremlin has tried to convince the USA to return to the Cold War practice of division of the regional spheres of influence (calling it a “big deal”), but this demand is rejected by the USA and EU. According to US State Secretary Blinken, the concept of having spheres of influence should have disappeared after WWII – the USA does not recognise such a concept and the Russian claims for “control” over post-Soviet countries.

Disinfo: Poland is becoming an American junior partner on the absolute margin of the US foreign policy

It is a very sad conclusion, but Washington strongly marginalises Poland. Despite the feeling that Poland is a strategic partner for the United States, today, it is becoming a junior partner on the absolute margin of the US foreign policy.

Jun 17, 2021
Disproof

A common pro-Kremlin narrative promoting the idea that Poland is a country without any real international importance or political significance. Poland is often presented as an American “puppet-state”, which does not represent any importance for the USA.

The US authorities have repeatedly stated that they perceive Poland as its ally in Central Europe and one of the strongest US Continental partners. The US and Poland implement such strategically important projects as the increase of the US military presence in NATO’s Eastern Flank, modernisation of the Polish Army, diversification of Polish gas supplies, etc.

Disinfo: Russiagate was baseless and its sole mission was to topple Trump

Opposition groups of the American elite were ready to destroy the entire planet in order to gain power in Washington. Quite simply, the Democratic Party sacrificed relations with Russia, and the strategic stability of the world, as part of a false and baseless campaign whose sole mission was to topple Donald Trump.

Jun 17, 2021
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This is a recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about an alleged plot against former US president Donald Trump by undemocratic powers, articulated through claiming that Russiagate was a hoax designed to topple Trump.

There were plenty of reasons for US authorities to open an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, as Volume 5 of the Intelligence Committee of the US Senate on Russian Interference in the 2016 election (released in August 2020) shows, which highlights many elements that were not covered by the previous Mueller Report.