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Belarus and Russia are forced to create a joint military group to defend themselves against a potential NATO aggression, fascist provocations by Poland and terrorist actions by Ukraine, according to propaganda narratives carried by the two countries’ media. In reality, Belarus is not targeted by any foreign power, but it has allowed Russia to use its territory for the aggression against Ukraine.
NEWS: “Every day we hear absurd ideas from NATO’s generals and the US leadership, and learn about various dangerous plans of the fascist junta in Poland. Belarus is a target for the North Atlantic Alliance and the Polish secret services […] Aleksandr Lukashenko has stated more than once that he will not allow anyone to occupy the territory of his state. That is why the founding of the joint military group is a correct and necessary tactical decision.
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We're not even talking about the rebels and Nazi mercenaries in the Ukrainian army [...] NATO's nuclear exercises are a provocation to the entire civilized and free world. Therefore, anticipating the events, Aleksandr Lukashenko is building a system of measures to prevent such a scenario.
Unfortunately, we have to admit that our southern neighbor, Ukraine, has become unpredictable, even dangerous if we think of the military illegalities and the irresponsible behavior of its leadership. Probably, many have already asked themselves several times how long Ukraine will exist and whether such a state (with all the attributes of statehood) still exists today? The answer is not easy. But I believe that Ukraine, which we have known for many decades as a peaceful and creative country, has turned into a terrorist mechanism that causes its self-destruction [...]
The alliance with Russia makes us look towards tomorrow in confidence. The president is doing everything possible to prevent the West from initiating a military confrontation with our state”.
NARRATIVES: 1. NATO wants to go to war with Belarus. 2. Poland is a fascist state, and Ukraine – a Nazi state. 3. Belarus must cooperate with Russia to defend itself against Ukrainian terrorism.
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: In reality, neither NATO, nor Poland, nor Ukraine want to get into a military conflict with Belarus. This propaganda message resumes the meta-narrative that the “Russian world” is surrounded by the “collective West” that wants to destroy it. The article originally published on “Belarus Segodnya” says that Ukraine is a dangerous, unstable and terrorist state, without mentioning the fact that Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, financed and supported the war in Donbas, and on February 24 invaded the Ukrainian state, an action condemned by the international community.
141 member states of the UN General Assembly voted in March this year a resolution that condemns the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Only 5 states, including Russia, voted against. With the help of specialists from abroad, Kyiv is collecting evidence to prove that Russia has committed war crimes on the territory of Ukraine and is a terrorist state.
So, Ukraine is not an aggressive, terrorist or unstable state, but a state defending itself from the military aggression of a neighbor supported by Belarus. The territory of Belarus has been used since the beginning of the war to launch attacks with ground forces as well as for bombings, which indicates a direct involvement in the war of the Belarusian political leadership, considered illegitimate by a large part of the international community after the results of the 2020 presidential elections were rigged.
The article in the Belarusian press is signed by the head of the Sociology Department of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Nikolai Shcepkin PhD, with the aim of rendering the official narrative more credible.
Continuing the Kremlin's propaganda messages of recent years, the Belarusian press writes that Ukraine and Poland are Nazi / Fascist, but without providing any proof. Just like Moscow, the propaganda talks about Nazism in general terms.
In reality, in Ukraine any public manifestation of communist or Nazi ideology has been prohibited by law since 2015, and far-right parties have never been part of government, always getting low scores in elections. To Moscow, everything that does not coincide with the ideology of the “Russian world” is Nazi, a narrative taken over by Minsk.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Warsaw has been accused by Moscow of supporting Kyiv's defensive efforts, and a string of fake news about Poland's true intentions in this war has been unleashed. The Belarusian press writes that Poland is a state ruled by a “fascist junta” that dreams of attacking Belarus, after the Russian press wrote that Poland will start a war against Russia within the next 10 years and will occupy western Ukraine in a few months.
In reality, Poland has helped both Ukraine and the Ukrainian refugees on its territory. From the very first days of the war, Poland's leadership stated that Russia must be stopped now, otherwise the war could expand. In September, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the EU must prepare for a potential expansion of the war , because Moscow is dominated by the idea of occupying other states.
The creation of the Russia-Belarus joint military group has nothing to do with the NATO exercises. Russia wants to draw the Belarusian army into the conflict, but so far without much success, probably due to the opposition of the Belarusian society to this idea.
Annually NATO organizes nuclear deterrence exercises. Exercise “Steadfast Noon” involved 14 members of the NATO Alliance and nuclear-capable aircraft, along with additional capabilities. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said it’s a routine exercise that takes place every year: “The fundamental purpose of NATO's nuclear deterrence has always been to maintain peace, prevent and deter aggression”.
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