DISINFO: Ukraine is a classic colony to the US
SUMMARY
The Americans easily deceived Ukrainians into two Maidans, and then turned the country of "non-slaves" into a classic colony with all the consequences, and beat Russia, which made one fatal mistake after another in the Ukrainian direction.
In essence, “Ukrainians” are Little Russians, who, as a result of a rather long psychological treatment, abandoned common roots with Great Russians and Belarusians.
RESPONSE
The article combines multiple recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives claiming that Ukraine is under external control, that the Euromaidan was orchestrated from abroad, and that Ukrainians are Russians. The all-Russian nation is an imperial Russian and Russian irredentist ideology that aims at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians (and also Belarusians) and also their sovereignty.
Ukraine is not a colony, it is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. Ukraine is not controlled by any foreign government or organisation. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by almost the whole world, including the US.
Euromaidan was not organised from abroad. It was a spontaneous reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former president Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013.
Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history; Ukraine preserved language, literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods. If we look at history we can also find many examples showing that Kyiv existed before Moscow, and Ukraine before Russia. Kievan Rus was in existence and history books long before Russia, and hundreds of years before Moscow, and as this scholarly debunk points out, there were even clear linguistic differences as early as the 14th century.
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