DISINFO: Anglo-Saxons have ugly views about Ukraine

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DISINFO: Anglo-Saxons have ugly views about Ukraine

SUMMARY

Russia has no other options as to restore the Russian world by getting Ukraine back. This is not about Donbas or Malorossiya but Ukraine as a whole. Ukrainians are an integral part of the Russian people. Accepting independent Ukraine would amount to the treason of the foundations of the Russian civilisation, including Russian history, belief, and identity. To refuse Ukraine means to stop being Russia.

Anglo-Saxons have two Ukraine-related views. One approach claims that Ukraine should, by all means, be torn away from Russia and turned into a new Poland, that is former Slavic brothers who became enemies. A softer Anglo-Saxon approach views Ukraine as a tool to contain Russia and to bring discord in Russia-Europe relations.

RESPONSE

This is a classic example of recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the Russian world/civilisation and Ukrainian statehood. The publication absurdly suggests that accepting sovereign Ukraine would the end of the Russian world. The "all-Russian nation" is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians, as well as their sovereignty.

Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the Slavs ethnolinguistic group but they are not a single nation.

The publication operates with the term “Anglo-Saxons,” which in this context of the vocabulary of pro-Kremlin media means “evil”, “belligerent” and “morally corrupt” Westerners, as explained in our earlier analysis. In this respect, the publication also promotes a propaganda narrative about western anti-Russian activities.

See earlier similar disinformation cases in our database: Ukraine has always been Russian, Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians are a single nation, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are three Russian political nations, Anglo-Saxons are at the edge of anti-Russian attack, Anglo-Saxons tried to control China by cancelling globalisation.

Disclaimer

Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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