RUSSIA: U.S. SPREADING ‘LARGE-SCALE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN’ TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THEIR ‘OWN AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS’

Russia’s claims that Washington is stepping up its “Hate Russia” campaign, to cover up its own war atrocities. 
In response to the constant U.S. ramping up of the narrative that Russia’s invasion is “imminent”—which, as we have detailed they have been claiming since 2014, (See “COWARDS AND FOOLS,” 28 Jul 2015), the Kremlin on Friday accused Western countries of producing an “unprecedented” campaign to attempt to “convince the world community” that Russia is planning an invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that it has been on the receiving end of a coordinated media attack to discredit legitimate security demands from NATO. The ministry said it collected a dossier of articles that have been published to support the allegation.
“They serve as evidence of a well-coordinated information attack against Moscow, aimed at undermining and discrediting Russia rightful demands for securing guarantees and justifying western geopolitical aspirations and its notary development of Ukrainian territory,” the ministry said.
He also noted that Putin is set to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last Tuesday as tensions worsen between Moscow and the European Union.
Back in December, Russia stated its demands that NATO would not continue to expand to bordering nations and insisted on a guarantee that NATO and the U.S. military would not expand into Ukraine.
However, the U.S./NATO alliance refused to accept the deal. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted that the alliance will continue to consider new prospective NATO members.
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on Russia’s claim that Western countries are strategically expanding NATO-allied in an attempt to surround Moscow. (See “PUTIN PUTS PRESSURE ON UKRAINE,” ”U.S. VOWS UKRAINE SUPPORT,” “KREMLIN BLAMES UKRAINE FOR STOKING TENSIONS AT BORDER,” “U.S. CONTINUES TO RAMP UP COLD WAR 2 RHETORIC,” “BIDEN PLEDGES “UNWAVERING SUPPORT” FOR UKRAINE” and “BLINKEN BELLOWS: U.S. COMMITTED TO UKRAINE’S SOVEREIGNTY IS ‘IRONCLAD.”)  
Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, wrote on Telegram late Friday that the “hysteria from the White House is more revealing than ever.”
“That Anglo-Saxons need a war,” Zakharova wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal. “At any price. Provocations, misinformation and threats are a favorite method of solving their own problems.”
Her comments came after Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters on Friday that the U.S. would not conduct military-led evacuations of citizens from a war zone. Sullivan said an invasion may occur at any moment.
“I will not comment on details of our intelligence information, but I do want to be clear: It could begin during the Olympics despite a lot of speculation that it would only happen after the Olympics,” Sullivan said.
A senior Defense Department official told Politico that the Pentagon ordered 3,000 additional soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team to Poland. 
The outlet reported that the additional troops bring the total numbers to 6,000 troops—mostly from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.
“We want to crystal clear on this point: Any American in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible and, in any event, in the next 24 to 48 hours. If you stay, you are assuming risk with no guarantee that there will be any other opportunity to leave and no prospect of a U.S. military evacuation in the event of Russian invasion,” Sullivan said.
Earlier this week, Sullivan said the conflict, which could result in the fall of Kyiv, could result in as many as 50,000 casualties. U.S. officials told the WSJ that Russian President Vladimir Putin has about 70 percent of the forces he needs in place to mount a full invasion of Ukraine.
And on Sunday, Sullivan, appearing on America’s mainstream media, said, Russian President Vladimir Putin could give an order for military action “essentially at any time.”
“We have seen over the course of the past 10 days a dramatic acceleration in the build-up of Russian forces and the disposition of those forces in such a way that they could launch a military action essentially at any time,” Sullivan said on Face the Nation, without a shred of evidence, Russian forces could invade Ukraine “this coming week.”
Russia has denied having any intention of invading Ukraine and blamed the U.S. and other NATO members for escalating tensions in Eastern Europe. Moscow last December sent security proposals to Washington—among them, barring Ukraine from joining NATO. 
TRENDPOST: Totally unreported by the Presstitute media is Washington’s breach of the Gorbachev/Reagan agreement that ended the Cold War, whereby the U.S. vowed not to expand NATO. 
The Trends Journal reported in 2016 that “forward positions in Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic States are hundreds of miles further east than the Oder-Neisse border between Germany and Poland, where U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush solemnly promised Soviet and Russian leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin that NATO would halt its expansion more than a quarter-century ago. 
The trend, clearly, is pushing toward mounting Russia/NATO tensions.” (See “WHAT THE ANTI-RUSSIA RHETORIC MEANS,” 28 Mar 2016). 
TRENDPOST: As NATO’s first secretary general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe and the Americans in.  Instead of disbanding NATO when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Washington dramatically expanded NATO.  
In violation of the Reagan-Gorbachev agreements, the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush regimes added constituent parts of the former Soviet empire to NATO—Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. 
France, taken out of NATO by General de Gaulle, rejoined in April 2009, 18 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, followed by other nations including Croatia, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia.