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September 2024.
As part of the program Regional Initiative for combating disinformation “Western Balkans Combatting disinformation Center: Exposing malicious influences through fact-checking and Analytical Journalism“, we present you a new analysis of fake news and disinformation narratives.
Could the US break up into several confederations under the protectorate of Russia and China?
The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into the Russian-Ukrainian war resulted in a deepening of the broad confrontation between Russia and the so-called political West—according to the term popularized in the pro-Russian media—led by the United States of America. The political, security-intelligence, and economic dimensions are inseparably linked to media-propaganda competition.
Through Russian and pro-Russian media, various propaganda messages and instruments of disqualification are disseminated. Among the more pronounced and quantitatively observed is the connection of Ukraine with Nazi heritage, along with the drawing of parallels between Ukrainian and broader Western politics and Nazi politics.
An illustrative example is the article by the Russian political scientist Timofey Sergeytsev, which was reported to the domestic public by the portal Srbin.info. The author’s article, “Could the US break up into several confederations under the protectorate of Russia and China?”, although it contains a misleading title, in its content repeats some key points of Russian (propaganda) accusations against the USA and, indirectly, Ukraine.
Sergeytsev points out at the beginning that “the Nazi ideology dictated to Ukrainians determines their place in the food chain, at the top of which is the United States,” but he further claims that “Ukrainian Nazism will be destroyed in all its manifestations on the historical territories of Russia,” posing the rhetorical question, “Whether there will be anything left of Ukraine after that—we don’t have to guess.”
The author additionally “broadens the picture” by offering his historical and geopolitical interpretation of the dynamics of Russian-Western relations, noting that “the solution to the Ukrainian problem does not negate the main problem of Russia—the war of attrition and destruction being waged against it…by the United States.” However, the position is that the US has become hostage to that struggle, which is growing into an existential risk for themselves, and that the decision-makers in Washington are not aware of how the ‘war against Russia’ is becoming a process that determines the fate of the US.”
An extremely controversial opinion was expressed that the USA is gathering “forces” for a decisive “blow” at Russia. “For that, the United States needs an internal dictatorship and they will establish it, and Ukraine has become their laboratory for the great experiment of transitioning to Nazism,” Sergeytsev writes. He continues controversially in the text reported by Srbin.info with the assertion that “American Nazism is absolute…and when the final nazification of the United States occurs, it is possible that some countries that do not want nazification and fascist dictatorship will secede from the USA, facing Russia and other affected countries.”
The prognostic element of the text is contained in the assessment of the future complete geopolitical failure of the United States, which will spill over into the internal situation as well. Sergeytsev considers the potential for “the disintegration of the alliance of North American states and the formation of several confederations under the protectorate of Russia and China” as a desirable scenario from his perspective.
In the given text, the Russian political scientist makes unfounded claims about the character of the Ukrainian and American regimes, making comparisons with the infamous Nazi ideology. Such characterizations represent a problematic misuse and negative relativization of the most repressive regime and ideology in modern history. In addition, the interpretations of the geopolitical context correspond to the radical and controversial views of the Russian political establishment and elements of official Moscow’s propaganda messages, which lack practical foundations.
Author: Igor Mirosavljević
