DISINFO: The US wants to disintegrate the EU through the war in Ukraine
SUMMARY
The war in Ukraine is the US's way of disintegrating the EU, its major competitor. The US is using various methods which it used to apply in relations with the USSR.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about the war in Ukraine and the US having malicious intentions towards Europe, trying to deflect responsibility for the war from Russia by claiming that the US would benefit from it and has a hidden agenda related to the war.
This narrative, aimed at wedge driving between EU and the US, is often intertwined with the one about an alleged loss of sovereignty of the EU and its member states. Pro-Kremlin outlets often portray European states as vassals, puppet-states or colonies of the US. See our article Key Narratives in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Part 3: ‘Lost Sovereignty’.
Read similar disinformation cases claiming that EU and NATO member states are subordinate to the US, while the US has long regarded the EU as a kind of protectorate, that lined up with the US, the EU never took independent decisions, that Europe is a colony of the United States, that When the US orders, the EU complies.