Saturday, 23 November 2024

UK Gov’t Blames Civil Unrest in Europe on ‘Russian Disinformation’


British government says Russian disinfo to blame for European civil unrest.

The British government has warned that civil unrest in Europe and the West is being caused by a sophisticated ‘Russian disinformation’ campaign.

In the West, protests have erupted over uncontrolled mass immigration from third world countries and the deliberate agenda to erase traditional Western culture.  Some of the unrest has also been related to the Ukraine war and ongoing discussions about “conscription” among government officials. 

Infowars.com reports: The UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, is one of many bureaucrats that are trying to lump all civil actions together, labeling them a “threat to democracy.”  The narrative also seeks to tie these events to “Russian disinformation.”  In other words, according to David Lammy the public is being brainwashed by Vladimir Putin into protesting and this is a strategy by the Kremlin to sow discord within Europe.

The U.K. government sanctioned three Russian agencies and their senior executives this month, accusing them of orchestrating disinformation campaigns and seeking to fuel anti-Ukraine protests across Europe. 

The Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technologies, and Ano Dialog, alongside their directors, are accused of spearheading a “vast malign online network” commonly known as “Doppelganger.”  The network used “deceitful tactics… to mask the truth around Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and distract from the true nature of the war,” the U.K. Foreign Office said in a statement Monday.

Lammy and others claim this constitutes a “threat to democracy” and he says he will take action to shut down all sources of disinformation.  To be sure, Russia is involved in psy-ops as any country at war would be.  That said, so is David Lammy and his ilk and they aren’t only at war with Russia, they’re also at war with the UK and EU populace.

It should be noted that Lammy is becoming a regular fixture at The Atlantic Council, which has been deeply involved in the escalation of Ukrainian tensions with Russia for over a decade.  He is also on the advisory board for the European branch of the Council On Foreign Relations.  His relationships with globalist institutions helps to explain his hostility to conservative and anti-progressive movements.  

As Lammy argues in his recent conference with Ukrainian officials, any sense that allies are not united ‘only benefits Putin.’  Clearly this “unity” must also extend to the civilian population (by force if necessary), otherwise Lammy and his cohorts look rather ridiculous.

The tactic of attaching all civil dissent to the schemes of a foreign adversary is a tale as old as oligarchy.  It’s a way for governments to negate or dismiss public opposition to policy without losing face, because they can claim all the dissent is astroturf created by malicious foreign agencies. 

China did this with the Hong Kong protests in 2019, seeking to blame western governments after the citizens of Hong Kong opposed being placed under total control of the CCP.  In this way, the communist regime marginalized millions of people and their right to self determination simply by painting the protests as engineered.  This is exactly what David Lammy is doing with UK and EU citizens that want a reckoning for government trespasses.      

This brand of propaganda has been utilized regularly in the US as well, with Democrats consistently blaming Putin and Russia for the rise in conservative movements and the success of the Trump campaign.  If the elites were to ever admit that public dissent is legitimate, they would lose the illusion that they are the “protectors of the realm.”  Without a foreign enemy to blame, these same officials are exposed as the true enemies of “democracy”, and they certainly don’t want that.


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