DISINFO: The US-controlled EU is using Ukraine to attack Russia as Napoleon did in 1812
SUMMARY
The EU is the US's appendix and cannot be treated as independent. Germany, France, and Poland are not sovereign. Napoleon once said that a united Europe is starting an invasion of Russia. Today, EU politicians are trying to repeat Napoleon’s 1812 invasion. This time Ukraine serves as a tool to destroy Russia.
RESPONSE
The content of this video contains wrong historical analogies and disinformation aimed at discrediting the EU / West as a whole, consistent with recurring pro-Kremlin narratives about alleged Western aggressiveness towards Russia and its anti-Russian activities, as well as about EU countries as US puppets.
It also includes the narrative that Ukraine is a Western "tool" against Russia aiming to deflect any Russian responsibility for the unjustified wide-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The Russian war against Ukraine began in 2014 with the Russian illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's military involvement and support of separatists in Donbas.
The concept of a united Europe is creatively paralleled with Napoleon's military campaign against the Russian Empire in 1812. Pro-Kremlin propaganda frequently employs tenuous historical analogies to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine, with comparisons to Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR being particularly favoured.
Learn more about the reasons behind the Kremlin's obsession with Nazism in the EUvsDisinfo analyses titled "Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest" and "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
The US does not control the EU countries and EU as a whole. The EU Member States are sovereign countries and make sovereign decisions about their own security and foreign policies, including relations with Russia. The decisions in the EU are made by the directly elected European Parliament, the European Commission together with the European Council (the governments of the 27 EU countries).
See earlier disinformation cases claiming that the West has approved a new ‘Barbarossa’ plan to attack Russia, that Washington and Brussels planning war against Russia, similar to Napoleon and Hitler, that fifty countries are trying to wipe Russia off the earth, and that United Europe is a vassal of the Anglo-Saxons and they team up against Russia.