DISINFO: Washington caused the war in Ukraine to benefit American military industrial complex
SUMMARY
The Ukrainian conflict, artificially created by Washington, multiplies risks for the whole planet. They include economic impoverishment, hunger, wars, migration, technological degradation, and nuclear winter. Peace in Europe and elsewhere brings no dividends to the American military and industrial complex and no new working places for the US economy. Instead, wars guarantee that. American weapons in Ukraine will not defend anyone. Washington’s military assistance brings suffering and mass civilian deaths in all developing countries.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative alleging that Ukraine is a Western "tool" against Russia. The claim aims 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 Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's military involvement and support of separatists in Donbas.
The US has in no way created the “Ukrainian conflict” as alleged in the article. It was Putin’s personal decision to invade Ukraine and start the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. Putin had offered several reasons for launching aggression, including the necessity to save territories in Eastern Ukraine from a genocide, Ukraine’s alleged desire to obtain nuclear weapons and Kyiv’s possible membership of NATO.
Neither the US nor European countries have pushed Ukraine to war with Russia or want to escalate the war in Ukraine. The US, the EU and NATO condemn in the strongest possible terms Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is entirely unjustified and unprovoked. Western nations have always been calling for solving all problems with Russia in a peaceful and diplomatic manner. Moscow’s overall aggressive policy has led to a tougher and better-balanced policy towards it by the West.
Although NATO member states are providing Ukraine with military assistance to repel the unprovoked Russian aggression, they are not involved in direct fighting. Ukraine receives weapons with the sole aim of restoring its territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders. Western instructors are teaching Ukrainian soldiers how to use modern weaponry, but there are no NATO troops fighting on the front.
See the EU's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine here along with EU vs Disinfo's Guide to Deciphering Pro-Kremlin disinformation around Putin's War.