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Disinfo: NATO uses “Russian threat” to justify its actions

Summary

NATO is increasing its military presence near the Russian border. The Alliance is using the “Russian threat” to justify this actions. The Baltic States are also using the “Russian threat”. They are concluding high-cost security agreements with the US and are deploying NATO military contingents in their territories.

Moscow has said many times that it has no plans to attack any country. NATO knows it.

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Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative, portraying NATO as having a belligerent agenda against Russia and claiming that the “Russian threat” is a false idea.

NATO does not seek confrontation with Russia. The Alliance indicated this position in the Brussels Summit Declaration in 2018. However, this declaration concludes that “Russia’s aggressive actions, including the threat and use of force to attain political goals, challenge the Alliance and are undermining Euro-Atlantic security and the rules-based international order”.

Russia’s annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of eastern Ukraine is the source of NATO's concerns about the challenge Russia poses to the post-Cold War security order in Europe. As a result, NATO has reinforced the security of Alliance in the Baltic region. In 2016, at NATO's Warsaw Summit, it was decided to establish an enhanced forward presence (eFP) to the Baltic states and Poland as of 2017. The decision to establish eFP is based on the main principle of NATO that an attack on one Ally will be considered an attack on the whole Alliance.

See similar cases: NATO uses false “Russian threat” as pretext to expand its presence near Russian border, NATO exploits the idea of a “Russian threat” to deploy near Russian border, NATO does not serve the purpose of war prevention, it continues to wage wars.

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Sputnik Lithuania (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 221
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 24/11/2020
  • Language/target audience: Lithuanian
  • Country: Russia, Baltic states, US
  • Keywords: security threat, Anti-Russian, NATO

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France became one of the winners of World War II thanks to Stalin

It was Stalin who mostly made De Gaulle a world-class politician. Moreover, where would France itself be now, if not for Stalin and the USSR?

The representative of France was at that table [during the signing of the German surrender act on May 9, 1945 in Berlin] only at the behest of Stalin, because the United States and England did not see France at all among the victorious countries. The Second World War could well have ended in a terrible disgrace for France.

Thanks to the support of the USSR and Stalin’s position personally, France managed to get into not only the group of victorious powers in World War II, but also to become one of the five founding countries of the UN. That is why France is now a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

November 24, 2020
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This recurrent disinformation narrative is part of the Kremlin’s policy of historical revisionism of the events of WWII.

France and Britain declared war on Germany when it invaded Poland in September 1939 (at that time, the USRR acted as an ally of Germany and invaded Poland, the Baltic States and Finland in accordance with the Hitler-Stain Pact, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ). After the Phoney War from 1939 to 1940, the Germans invaded and defeated France within seven weeks and forced the British off the continent. France surrendered to Germany although the French force, in-exile, led by General Charles de Gaulle continued the liberation of France by the Western Allies UK and US. The Forces of Free France took part in combat against Axis forces at several theatres of warfare, not least on the Eastern Front, where a unit of French airmen fought together with USSR aviators.

Even though De Gaulle was not invited to the Yalta Conference, France's participation in the Security Council of United Nations was supported by Britain and France was allocated an occupation zone in Germany, to be carved out from the British and American zones, upon British insistence. Stalin agreed with this decision on a single condition: the zones which will be given to France wouldn't be the ones of the USSR.

Navalny’s employee could have been involved in the poisoning, to worsen EU-Russian relations

Judging by the data that is available, including insider information from German intelligence services, it is obvious that Maria Pevchikh could have been involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

Is it possible that an ordinary FBK employee can perform such clandestine international functions and be included in such high circles? No, of course, it is quite obvious that there are big people behind it, who, obviously, do not reside in Russia, but are somewhere in Britain.

In half face masks and sunglasses, recognised by all, but kind of incognito, they [Yulia Navalnaya and Maria Pevchikh] go to the Charité clinic. They bring good news to Navalny’s ward: relations between Russia and the European Union deteriorated to the end, the task is completed.

November 24, 2020
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Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the poisoning of Alexey Navalny.

The Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation FBK's employee Maria Pevchikh, accompanied by lawyers, found the plastic bottle in Navalny's hotel room in Tomsk, which later allowed German experts to establish that Navalny had been poisoned with a highly toxic substance from the Novichok group. No German intelligence experts suggested Pevchikh herself was the suspect.

Voting systems were designed to be hacked and were used by Biden to win the election

The Dominion voting system and other vote counting systems are very easy to hack. They were designed to be easily hacked and to be able to manipulate the results. The inventor of this system in Venezuela said he managed to add a million new votes to ensure that Maduro is re-elected. This is the same software that has been used in many states in the USA. The idea is that it is easily hackable to manipulate election results, and it is all easy to do.

During the election day there was a spike of votes for Biden after the machines were updated.

Postal votes are not responsible for this spike. This is what the engineer from Venezuela says. The count in these states was interrupted. The countdown has never been so late before. The reason is that the people who took care of the count had discovered that the forms in the machine were not enough to overthrow the majority for Donald Trump. So they had to stop the count and restart the machine with a new formula sent to them over the internet. When they revived the formula it was much faster and favoured the Democrats much more, which is why there is this spike. It is not because of the postal votes. They were not all counted at the same time. The problem is that the machines have been changed so that there are more votes for Joe Biden than for Donald Trump.

November 24, 2020
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Disinformation message about the US in the context of US 2020 presidential election.

The spike of votes for Biden observed on election night were not due to a reset and update of counting machines but, depending on the state, some manual corrections of previous errors or the counting of new batches of mail in votes.