DISINFO: NATO is pursuing its own bureaucratic survival through nonexistent threats
SUMMARY
The expansion of the Atlantic military alliance towards the east is seen as a constant and baseless threat. NATO is pursuing its own bureaucratic survival. Its arguments are ghosts of aggressions that only it perceives since in reality there is no threat over European territory. They generate nonexistent threats to instil fear in the US administration to increase its budget and its rhetoric aggressivity.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about NATO as an obsolete organisation, unnecessary in face of a benign, non-aggressive Russia.
NATO is a collective defence organisation whose members voluntarily request membership, including Eastern European countries, for their own protection and collective security. Independent states have the full right to seek the foreign policy orientation and alliances of their choice.
Contrary to the claim, it can't be said that the threats they fear are “nonexistent”. Since 2014, Russia has waged large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and is the responsible party for the outbreak of the conflict there in 2014, after having illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula and engineered the creation of rebel militias in Donetsk, Luhansk and other places, with its army actively participating in military clashes.
Since early April 2021, Russia is again concentrating massive military power on Ukraine’s borders and threatened to intervene in support of Eastern Ukrainian separatists, raising fears of an upcoming military operation against Ukrainian territory. See here for detailed debunk by POLYGRAPH.info of claims about NATO allegedly instrumentalising “Russia’s mythical aggression”.
This message is part of an ongoing disinformation campaign on Russia’s military moves toward Ukraine. See other examples in our database, such as claims that the US needs a war to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, that Zelenskyy is not an independent president but a spokesman of US interests, that the US is preparing the Ukrainian army for genocide in Donbas, that Russia poses zero threat to any other country, including Ukraine, or that Russia never participated in the Ukrainian conflict