A post on the social network Threads, with no evidence, accuses NATO of aggression against the Kursk Region of Russia and compares it to Napoleon and Hitler, when in fact, it was the military of Ukraine, which is not a NATO member, that invaded there. The post hushes up the fact that the incursion was а response to Russian aggression against Ukraine which began in 2014 and which became comprehensive in 2022.
A post on the social network Threads says:
I don’t know why they trouble themselves in Kursk, when history repeats itself, and Kursk will be a victory for Russia 💪🇷🇺
… They did not learn their lesson from World War II… Napoleon was mistaken, Hitler was mistaken and now NATO is mistaken. Glory to Russia 💪🇷🇺
Along with the text, a picture is also embedded in the post, commemorating the 81st year of the Battle of Kursk between the Nazi aggressor and the Soviet army that carried the victory.
In the picture, a parallel is drawn between the Soviet and present-day Russian army, and in the post —between Napoleon, Hitler and NATO, which is being told that it is attacking Russia in vain, since it will be defeated, just like Napoleon in 1812 or like the Nazis in the Battle of Kursk in 1943.
However, first, NATO did not commit aggression against Russia, it was Russia that committed aggression against Ukraine, which began in Crimea in 2014 and which became comprehensive on the 24th of February, 2022. In response to that, on the 6th of August, 2024, Ukrainian forces invaded Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Russia is not a victim of NATO aggression, it is the aggressor. The operation of the Ukrainian army on Russian territory, in the Kursk Oblast, is in the context of defending the country. Ukraine has no intention of staying on Russian territory in the long term or annexing that part of Russia.
The objectives of the military operation of the Ukrainian military are explained in the context of creating a “buffer zone” to prevent or at least make it more difficult for Russia’s air and sabotage attacks on the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine, which is on the other side of the border, a counterattack as a result of the favorable circumstances — in that part the border between the two countries was very weakly defended. Furthermore, there is the “exchange fund”, i.e. the number of Russian prisoners of war, who could then be exchanged for captured Ukrainian members of the armed forces, as well as an effort to distract part of the Russian military forces from the Ukrainian battlefields and their relocation to Kursk.
This clearly shows that the objectives of the operation are in the context of defending Ukraine from Russian aggression and drawing any parallels between the current situation with that of the times of Napoleon and the Second World War are incorrect.
This is not the first time that the war has been transferred to Russian territory. It happened last year as well, often. Ukrainians in 2023 took the war into Russia, targeting bases, airports and refineries, especially in Belgorod, but also in Moscow. On the 3rd of May, 2023 the Kremlin was also targeted by a drone.
It is precisely due to these actions, along with others, that the West conducts a cautious policy towards Russia and avoids provoking it, and even imposes a series of restrictions on Ukraine regarding the weapons it provides, so would that cautious West really invade the territory of a nuclear power? There is no evidence or logic for that.
In reality, the West was surprised by that Ukrainian incursion, and the US said it was not informed of the plan. There are no American or other NATO soldiers captured in the Kursk region and there are no American-Russian battles, and if there are, Russia should present it to the UN, declare war on NATO and break diplomatic relations with the members of the pact, but Russia does not do that.
And if NATO simply has to invade to Russia, it does not have to do it from Ukraine, it could do it from: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania.
The post says that NATO did not learn historical lessons from the failed expeditions of Napoleon and Hitler, but that could also be said for Russia, since it also has historical mistakes and defeats, however, it does not learn any lesson from them.
Thus, for example, Tsarist Russia abused the Pereiaslav Agreement with the Ukrainian Cossacks of 1654 to subjugate Ukraine, but in 1917 the Russian Empire collapsed, and the Ukrainians became independent as the Ukrainian People’s Republic.
They were then attacked by Vladimir Lenin’s Soviet Russia, which forcibly created Soviet Ukraine and included it in the USSR. However, in 1991 the USSR collapsed, and Ukraine became independent again. All those empires collapsed and Ukraine was liberated, so a lesson should be learned from that.
Starting from 2014 aggression against Ukraine is carried out by the present-day Russian Federation, during which it experienced various defeats, and even an invasion of its territory and its occupation by a foreign army for the first time since 1941. Evidently, Russia has not learned from its historical mistakes, so it repeats them, thus bearing heavy consequences.
Taking into account everything stated so far, we assess the post as untrue.
