DISINFO: Europe is happy with being cannon fodder for the US
SUMMARY
NATO and OSCE, which are US projections and necessary pawns in the conflicts that this country unleashes anywhere in the planet, have blown up Europe’s security system. And the worst thing is the “Stockholm syndrome” of the community block, which seems to rejoice itself for being in this situation as cannon fodder.
RESPONSE
This is a mix of several recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about Europe’s lack of sovereignty and about NATO and OSCE. In this case, through the claims that the US is using Europe and international organisations for its own interests, and that Europe suffers a “Stockholm syndrome” and is used as “cannon fodder”, this message aims to divert attention away from Russia’s responsibility for its unprovoked attack against Ukraine and to create breaches in the US-Europe cooperation to contain this aggression.
It was Russia’s invasion of peaceful Ukraine what blew up Europe’s security system, not NATO nor OSCE. Europe’s response and its contribution to Ukraine’s defence against this unjustified attack was a voluntary and sovereign decision to counter an increasingly aggressive Russia, not the result of any US manoeuvre.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that that Europe has become a US military and political colony, that the European Union has finally lost its political sovereignty, that the EU is a cover-up for the anti-Russian game of Anglo-Saxons or that the US is prolonging war in Ukraine to benefit from weapons sales.