DISINFO: Latvia is the villain of a hybrid war against Russia and the Russians
SUMMARY
Far from being an innocent lamb facing imminent Hybrid War slaughter by the Russian bear, like the Western Mainstream Media deceitfully misportrays it as, Latvia is actually a ruthless practitioner of Hybrid Warfare against both its Russian neighbor and its own Russian population alike. Riga gets a free pass for everything that it does because it’s a member of both the EU and NATO. Its European Exceptionalism is on full display to the point where even the rehabilitation of SS Nazis is accepted by its partners due to the mistaken belief that this reprehensible historical revisionism will somehow enable them to make geopolitical gains at Russia’s expense. The Western masses are gaslighted into thinking that Russia’s overreacting to Latvia due to their conventional power asymmetries, but the David and Goliath optics are deliberately misleading and mask the dark truth that even tiny states like Latvia can be formidable Hybrid War threats to much larger ones such as Russia.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Latvia, accusing it of Russophobia, hostility to Russia and support for neo-Nazism.
Latvia is not waging a hybrid warfare against Russia. The pro-Kremlin media routinely accuse the Baltic States of militarisation and hostility to Russia. All steps to strenghten security of Baltic states are linked to the aggressive behaviour of Russia toward its neighbours, including the illegal annexation of Crimea and Russian armed aggression in Ukraine.
The pro-Kremlin media tries to discredit the anti-Soviet resistance in Latvia and the independence struggle of the Baltic States by accusing them on neo-Nazi tendencies. Read more here.
Read earlier disinformation cases alleging that the Russophobic Baltic States are beggars and vassals of the West, that the main activity of the Latvian state is the trade of Russophobia, that a genocide against ethnic Russians / Russian-speaking population is possible in Latvia, and that the Baltic states openly glorify Nazism.