DISINFO: Biden uses Zelenskyy as intermediary against Russia
SUMMARY
During Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States was actively using Europe for confrontation with Russia. Now that Joe Biden is in office, the US will be using Ukraine for that purpose, because Europe gains more from cooperation with Moscow than from conflict with it.
RESPONSE
This is recurrent disinformation rhetoric from pro-Kremlin media outlets claiming that Ukraine is the West’s bridgehead for confrontation with Russia.
In reality, Ukraine gets support from the European Union and the United States in front of Russian aggression. The West is not interested in a confrontation with whomsoever, as long as they abide by international law. Moscow has been repeatedly breaking internationally recognised rules and standards, which arouses hostility and opposition from law-abiding nations, including the EU member states.
Russia staged a self-styled referendum in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014, after which it illegally annexed the territory. Moscow instigated an anti-Ukrainian rebellion in Donbas soon afterwards. It has also poisoned two of its former intelligence officers, who had fled to Great Britain. This can virtually be regarded as the use of chemical weapon abroad. Last but not least of Moscow’s record of violations, Russian President Vladimir Putin is believed to have ordered the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who survived the attempt and was jailed immediately after his return to Moscow.
Therefore, Joe Biden is not using his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy as his proxy against Russia. Russia itself reneges on bilateral and multilateral agreements and violates international legislation, prompting other countries to revise their relations with it. Washington helps Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression in Donbas, but, contrary to Russian allegations about NATO troops in the war zone, there is no American military presence there.
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