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It's hard to understand how anyone could believe that NATO/US pushed Russia into invading Ukraine, but then Boris and Farage fooled the gullible and ill informed that Brexit was an oven ready deal which would bring benefits, although now the truth is ever more apparent by the day!
Putin was losing support at home so he creates a diversion by causing a war and then sets about trying to convince the ordinary Russians that he is protecting them from the evil West.
When leaders lose popularity they often resort to such tactics, rather like Thatcher did to win the the next election in the eighties!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-falklands-war-180976349/
37 years ago, During the Falklands War did the EU help us NO they were openly sending Weapons to our AGGRESSOR never forget that” – Facebook post, 31 January 2020
This is not true. The EC (the predecessor of the EU) applied an arms embargo and an import ban on Argentina
https://fullfact.org/online/european-community-supported-britain-during-falklands-war/
The war Falklands war cost Britain about £2.8bn (£9.5bn in present value) and the islands’ defence costs upwards of £60m annually. In 2012 it was estimated that British taxpayers paid more than £20,000 per islander for defence alone, and approximately one-third of the population worked for the government. Unlike other former colonies such as Gibraltar, relations with the nearest nation-state are thin. Though living in a technically autonomous British overseas territory, the islanders are wholly dependent on Britain!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/07/british-sovereignty-falklands-absurd-imperial-hangover-argentina
Brexit some facts
https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-transition-period-economic-cost-public-opinion/
Russian Invasion of Ukraine the Facts
The war in Ukraine was fomented by disinformation and information warfare will be part of the battle.
https://fullfact.org/blog/2022/feb/ukraine-disinformation/
https://fullfact.org/news/ukraine/
“Russia is destroying biolabs.”
There are biological research labs in Ukraine that partner with the U.S. Department of Defence, but they do not do weapons research; they do disease monitoring. Russia is not bombing those labs. This narrative has been seeded by Russian propaganda outlets over the past two weeks, including the foreign ministry. The Russian state media outlet TASS published documents that they claimed prove NATO and the US were developing biological weapons at labs in Ukraine.
https://www.logically.ai/articles/a-round-up-of-misinformation-narratives-of-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine
Bad information ruins lives. We’re a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm it does.
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