DISINFO: The US will invent anything to blame Russia and attract its allies against a common enemy
SUMMARY
The US will invent anything to blame Russia: dark laboratories with poisons, computers working day and night to boycott the strongest and most exemplary democracy in the world, spies, flying unicorns, space ships, whatever they can think of. Whatever is necessary to establish a common enemy for its friends and allow it to dictate its rules.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Russia’s innocence of any misdeed. By framing these events as alleged US inventions for its own dark interests, this disinformation message intends to deny any Russian involvement in the chemical poisoning of its own citizens both inside Russia and abroad -such as the cases of Sergei Skripal, Alexei Navalny or Vladimir Kara-Murza, among many others, as well as in interfering in the elections of other countries, including the US, France, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Contrary to the claim, there is massive evidence showing Russia’s responsibility in all those actions, such as the existence of an FSB poisoning squad involved in multiple murders and attempts (including Navalny’s) or Russia’s campaign to interfere in the US elections in 2016. The reference to “computers working day and night to boycott” US democracy seems to be a reference to the Internet Research Agency, the so-called “Saint Petersburg’s troll farm”, whose existence has been proven beyond any doubt by journalists and researchers, infiltrated reporters and former workers, as well as by Western law enforcement agencies.
See other examples in our database, such as claims that the Navalny case is an outrageous fraud and an anti-Russian campaign, that sanctions on Russia are a pre-arranged scenario, that the alleged poisonings of Skripal and Navalny are Western provocations against Russia, that Washington’s frequent accusations about Russian interference in US political processes are all unfounded or that there is no evidence that Russia waged a disinformation campaign against Western coronavirus vaccines.
This disinformation message appeared in the same TV programme as the claim that “The report that accuses Russia of interfering in the US 2020 election is laughable”.