Complaining that Russia has spread disinformation in the Federal Republic of Germany, Russia’s disinformation hit a fever’s pitch in the 2016 and 2020 elections with, Democrats accusing 74-year-old former President Donald Trump worked in cahoots with the Kremlin to win the presidency. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham paid Glen Simpson’s opposition research firm FusionGPS to concoct disinformation to discredit Trump’s presidential campaign. Germany, in complaining about Russian disinformation, doesn’t have a clue what real disinformation is about, when the FBI launches as covert counterintelligence investigation against Trump because of Hillary’s bogus “Steel Dossier,” assembled by Simpson’s company. All that disinformation, fabrication and outright lies cost U.S. taxpayers $40 million and a 22-month Special Counsel investigation that amounted to nothing.
Germany ‘s External Action Service that exposes disinformation claims that it’s become the main target over Russian propaganda, especially over Germany portraying Russia as the evil empire. EUvsDisinfo insists that Russia disseminated 700 pieces of disinformation about Germany, 300 for France, 170 for Italy and 40 for Spain, in an analysis that that looks like a concerted propaganda campaign. “Germany is singled out as the main target for Russian disinformation efforts among European member states,” said the EUvsDisnfo watchdog. EUvsDisnfo offers no proof of Russian disinformation, only speculation about Russian public opinion that Germany speaks disparagingly about the Kremlin. Germany was one of the first EU country to vote to sanction the Kremlin over its treatment of 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny. Navalny currently serves out a two-year-eight-month sentence in a Russian prison.
Russia calls Germany’s approach “irrational Russophobia,” blaming 68-year-old President Vladimr Putin for ordering the FSB security service to poison Navalny. Since airlifted to Berlin for lifesaving treatment Aug. 24, 2020, Navalny spent time recovering from his poisoning in Bavaria’s Black Forrest region. “(Russia’s approach) intends to create uncertainty, sow discord, give Russian officials for manoeuvre . . .The Kremlin doublespeak exploits Europe, and Germany, commit to dialogue,” the EUvsDisnfo report said. But when you listen to EUvsDisinfo’s report, is sounds more like propaganda that anything coming out of the Kremlin. Germany, which holds extra influence in the EU, pushed for new Kremlin sanctions for its treatment of Navalny and past misdeeds, like invading Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014. Any Kremlin push back is considered Russian disinformation in Germany.
Russia’s disinformation campaign is nothing more than Putin getting the word out about what really happened with Navalny, Southeastern Ukraine or Crimean. Not one EU or U.S. news outlet talks about the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed Kiev coup that led to toppling the Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. Not one news outlet in the U.S. or EU admits that the CIA was involved in ousting Yahukovych. When Putin rolled the Red Army into Crimea March 1, it was a direct response to launching a coup in Kiev while Putin sat helplessly by hosting the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Yet to Germany’s EuvsDisinfo, it was Russia that spews the disinformation about what really happened March 1, 2014. There’s nothing about disinformation in Russia stating its opinion that the EU has it in for the Kremlin. Russia said Germany was instrumental in pushing for more Russian sanctions.
When it comes to real disinformation, no one’s better at spewing pernicious propaganda that the U.S. and EU press, saying whatever it wants to advance its agenda. When it comes to 67-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel, she grew up under Soviet control in East Germany. Yet despite all of Merkel’s misgiving about doing business with the Kremlin, she has an $11 billion deal to build out the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline bring natural gas from Russia to Europe. If Merkel really felt that threatened by Moscow, why would she partner with Russia to build out Germany’s natural supply pipeline? When Russia says Germany pushed for economic and travel sanctions against the Kremlin, that’s not Russian disinformation. It’s not disinformation to say the Germany pushed for more Russian sanctions, something France, the Netherlands and Belgium agreed with.
Russian disinformation swept Washington and now movea on to Brussels where growing Russian propaganda continue to expand. EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell met in Moscow Feb. 8 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Borrell demanded that Russia release Navalny, discussed cooperation on Climate Change and the Iranian Nuclear Deal. EU and U.S. officials have been hammering Russia over Navalny, someone called an “anti-corruption” activist. Talk about propaganda, Navalny is anything but any anti-corruption activist. Navanly’s a well-known revolutionary, seeking nothing less that to overthrow of Putin’s government. Whatever happened with Borrell Feb. 8, it had nothing to do with the EU slapping the Kremlin with economic and travel sanctions. If there’s so much distrust of Russia in the EU, whey do they buy 40% of their natural gas and 30% of petroleum from Moscow?
