DISINFO: UK rushes to approve “NATO vaccine”
SUMMARY
After the spectacular failure of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the UK is operating a “vaccine war” by authorising in a rush the US/German vaccine of Pfizer/BioNTech before the US and Germany, its own makers. This looks like a very “British” geopolitical manoeuvre of a war vaccine: “NATO’s vaccine”. Knowing of the legendary perfidy of the British, it is not surprising that the British try to control the geopolitical logistics of the vaccine at a global scale. They are so fanaticised that, after their own vaccine of AstraZeneca failed, they prefer to test a US/German vaccine than using the Russian Sputnik V – with a cost 7 times lower and that doesn’t require a -70ºC refrigeration, which requires an enormous additional cost- or the several Chinese vaccines.
RESPONSE
This is part of a disinformation campaign aiming to promote the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and discredit Western vaccines, attempting to frame the British decision to authorise the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and purchase 40 million doses as a geopolitical decision influenced by NATO. Contrary to the claim, the Pfizer/BioNTech project is not “NATO’s vaccine”, but a public-private enterprise who was partially funded by the German government though not by the US authorities.
This disinformation campaign was launched after approval of the Sputnik V vaccine was met with scepticism and criticism, even by Russian specialists in the country. See other examples in our database, such as claims that Western attacks on the Russian coronavirus vaccine are a corporate Cold War against humanity; that a report on the Covid-19 situation in Russia aims to discredit the Sputnik V vaccine or that the UK launched a smear campaign against it; that British propaganda tries to dilute the failure of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the Sputnik V; that the US and the EU face multiple deaths out of fear of admitting Russia’s success against coronavirus; that the WHO confirmed that the Sputnik V was on Phase 3 of clinical testing already in August 2020; that the WHO and Microsoft sabotaged the Russian vaccine; that Europe is turning to Russia due to its desperate need for a vaccine; or that the West criticises the Sputnik V because it can’t accept Russia’s primacy and because its pharmaceutical companies will lose billions of dollars.