DISINFO: Ukrainian counter-offensive shows the failure of US plans to weaken Russia
SUMMARY
The Ukrainian counter-offensive shows the failure of the US military strategy. As it has become a bloody catastrophe, US politicians that planned to weaken Russia with this conflict must now seek peace and negotiations.
RESPONSE
This is a mix of several recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the invasion of Ukraine.
By accusing US officials of “planning to weaken Russia”, this disinformation story aims to justify Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine and to shift blame for the war on the US.
Mentions of “US military strategy” are an attempt to suggest that it is the US who runs the war, denying Ukraine any role. In reality, Ukraine is defending itself from Russia’s unprovoked invasion in line with UN Charter article 51, while the US and other countries provide aid to Kyiv for this aim. Also, allegations about failure are an attempt to portray Ukraine’s fight as hopeless and this way undermine popular support for this international aid.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that the West kills Ukrainians by sending them weapons they don’t know how to use, that the US is prolonging war in Ukraine to benefit from weapons sales, that Western military aid to Ukraine will only cause more suffering or that the weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine are actually useless.
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