DISINFO: Fresh round of US anti-Russian sanctions shows US desperation
SUMMARY
The new round of anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Biden Administration “for the use of chemical weapons against dissidents, particularly for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny” seems a gesture of desperation from a country that realised that all its attempts to pressure and sanction Russia changed little. This despair has been clearly shown in Biden’s statement calling Putin “a murderer”. The US is clearly looking for an external enemy in face of its loss of global relevance, to use as an argument in its domestic political fights. It has no more ideas than pointing to Russia, introducing important sanctions without properly substantiating them and elevating tensions in bilateral relations to leave them at a dead end.
RESPONSE
This is a mix of several recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about sanctions and about Russia’s innocence of any misdeed.
By claiming that Joe Biden’s comments on Russian President Vladimir Putin and fresh US sanctions are a product of “US desperation in face of its loss of relevance”, this disinformation message aims to deflect any Russian responsibility in the actions that led to these sanctions, including the chemical poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
See other examples in our database, such as claims that sanctions on Russia are a pre-arranged scenario and are whitewashed under beautiful terms but are merely illegal actions, that the West needs cases like Navalny to fill its information wars against Russia, that human rights are a Trojan horse in the West’s hybrid warfare, that the West invented Navalny’s poisoning to uphold the myth of an aggressive Russia, or that the imposed anti-Russian sanctions because it needs an enemy to justify its bureaucracy.