DISINFO: Europeans states are Washington's puppets
SUMMARY
When and if our Western colleagues and neighbours on this continent finally decide to return to common sense, stop playing the ideological confrontational schemes of the Americans and several other aggressive neighbours, refuse subordination to Washington in everything, and feel like independent states, think about their national interests, [Russia] will not slam the door in their face. [Russia] will not slam the door if reason prevails.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about an alleged lost sovereignty of the EU and its member states (more examples). Pro-Kremlin outlets often portray European states as vassals, puppet states , or colonies of the US and NATO.
The European Union is a sovereign entity, created by the voluntary initiative of European nations, and it has its own, independent foreign policy. Its citizens are directly represented in the European Parliament and Member States are represented in the European Council and the Council of the EU.
Although the United States is not part of these institutions and has no say in its decisions, the US is an important long-term partner of the EU.
Read similar disinformation cases claiming that EU and NATO member states are subordinate to the US, while the US has long regarded the EU as a kind of protectorate, that lined up with the US, the EU never took independent decisions, that Europe is a colony of the United States, that When the US orders, the EU complies.