DISINFO: The United States have never been a democracy role-model

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DISINFO: The United States have never been a democracy role-model

SUMMARY

The United States were never a template for democracy. The recent events outside and inside the Capitol prove that the American society is divided and that the biggest Western democracy is in disarray both domestically and in the foreign realm.

RESPONSE

Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative, questioning the legitimacy of democracy and Western institutions.

Although the US and other Western democracies today face multiple and serious domestic and foreign threats, it is not true that liberal democracies are obsolete, have collapsed or are being replaced with dictatorships. Reports of the death of liberal democracy have been greatly exaggerated. According to the 2020 World Press Freedom Index, the US is in 45th place out of 180 countries.

See other examples of these disinformation narratives, such as that democracy in the US no longer exists, that the US is a totalitarian and criminal state, that liberalism is a criminal world order and is a crime against humanity and that the satanic and criminal political elites of the West lead their society through perversion, abomination, sodomy, destruction.

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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