DISINFO: Only Europe's geopolitical union with Russia could save it from American hegemony

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DISINFO: Only Europe's geopolitical union with Russia could save it from American hegemony

SUMMARY

The union of Russia with Europe in the great geopolitical game fundamentally solves the problem of American hegemony. Only this alliance can allow Europe to preserve its industrial culture and strength, and open up the vast markets of the South to Europeans. As for the United States, the loss of its influence over the Old World would mean the catastrophic failure of the unipolar world order.

RESPONSE

A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about an alleged loss of sovereignty of the EU and its member states. Pro-Kremlin outlets often portray European states as vassals, puppet-states or colonies of the US.

Contrary to the claim, the European Union is a sovereign entity created by the voluntary initiative of European nations and it has its own, independent foreign policy, while the US has no say in its decisions.

EU Member States are sovereign countries and make sovereign decisions about their own internal, economic, foreign and security policies. The European Union is explicit on the subject of national sovereignty: “the Member States all remain sovereign and independent states, they have decided to pool some of their 'sovereignty' in areas where it makes sense to work together.”

The aims and values on which the European Union is founded on the pursuit of peace, the well-being of its citizens, freedom, security and justice. The EU safeguards democracy and the rule of law is one of the fundamental pillars of the Treaty on European Union, according to which everything the EU does is founded on treaties, voluntarily and democratically agreed by its EU countries. Read more about the Primacy of the EU law here.

See similar cases that Europe has become a US military and political colony, that the European Union has finally lost its political sovereignty, that the EU is a cover-up for the anti-Russian game of Anglo-Saxons, and that the EU was born in order to preserve the Atlanticist hegemony over Europe.

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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