DISINFO: Russophobia and baseless accusations are a daily occurrence because the West fears Russia
SUMMARY
Accusations against Moscow have become a sort of competition in which one must only bet on who will be the next country to launch an offence against Moscow. It was done with Syria, it is being done with Ukraine, and will be done constantly by every and all of those countries, organisations and institutions that want to please the US. There are specific provocations every day, unilateral imposition of sanctions with the approval of the international community and nobody denouncing it, because it is the US and Europe who try to impose this policy. Russophobia is inoculated to public opinion through headlines, the use of certain words, the rhetoric of some Western leaders calling Putin “a killer”, and the targeting of Russia as if it was an ogre.
This is because Russia is an emerging country and has very big perspectives ahead, and the US has never tolerated the competition of other countries, stronger and more developed economically, and with a more balanced accounting. It is fear what leads the US to adopt measures so radical.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about Russophobia in the West.
Western governments have reacted to the actions of the Kremlin undermining international stability and security, such as illegal annexation of Crimea, downing of flight MH17, interference in the US as well as in European electoral processes, poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK.
The Kremlin has also been criticised and sanctioned for specific domestic policies that violate human rights in Russia, such as the poisoning of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Read more about the EU-Russia relations here.
See related examples of disinformation claims falsely alleging anti-Russian bias of international institutions: the OPCW, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the United Nations; also the EU.
This disinformation message appeared in the same TV programme as the claim that “Western double standards ignore coups in Belarus and Ukraine and the popular will in Crimea”.