Romania
Friday 1 December 2023
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“Zelensky … allowed the U.S. to place nuclear-capable Aegis missile launchers along Ukraine’s 1,200-mile border with Russia.”
U.S. deployed elements of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System in Turkey, Germany, Spain, Romania and Poland, but never in Ukraine. -
“Russian advertisement depicts Putin as Santa Claus, using magic to save a child from having gay dads, wearing pink and LGBT indoctrination. Russia believes the proxy war against NATO is necessary to preserve Christian values and fight satanism which controls the West.”
Source: Twitter, December 27, 2022The post glorifies Russia’s legalized criminalization of, and discrimination against, LGBTQ+ people. -
“They say the policy of ‘open doors.’ Where did it come from? NATO has an ‘open doors’ policy? Where is it prescribed? Nowhere.”
Source: TASS, February 1, 2022NATO’s open-door policy is written in Article 10 of its founding document – the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949. -
“[N]o criminal proceedings for corruption are being conducted against me in BiH or anywhere else in the world."
Dodik has been a frequent target of corruption allegations. Prosecutors are investigating into his purchase of a $1 million Belgrade villa and efforts to secede. -
“There is no way he could have swallowed a 100 ml of water from the gesture I saw. He died from choking on mother’s milk. His parents overfed him.”
After being submerged in baptismal water three times, an infant boy turned blue. Paramedics could not save him; he died at a hospital with 100 ml of water in his lungs. -
"It’s hard to say what Ms. Sandu meant when she pointed to the need to withdraw Russian peacekeepers, but it will hardly help resolve the issue and we will hardly be able to accept this kind of irresponsible demand.”
Source: TASS, December 1, 2020The U.N. has said Russian troops in Transnistria aren’t peacekeepers and should leave Moldovan territory. -
“The Red Army liberated European nations from the Nazi plague and brought peace and freedom to them.”
The Red Army did drive the Nazis out of Hungary and other Central/Eastern European countries, but the Soviets ushered in an era of dictatorships. -
“Transnistrians will not be able to cross the Moldovan-Ukrainian border by car.”
Moldova temporarily banned cars with unrecognized license plates from Transnistria from entering Ukraine. But not all cars – those with special “neutral” plates aren’t affected. -
We fact check six false or misleading claims by made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its annual review of the Kremlin’s policy initiatives.
Each year, the Russian Foreign Ministry issues an annual review. Polygraph.info fact-checks six of the false or misleading claims made about cybersecurity, Syria, the United States, Latin America and the INF treaty. -
While ‘brain dead’ @NATO annual #military budget exeeds [sic] $1 trillion, #Russia spends on defence 23 times less (only $46 bln). Neretheless, [sic] #fake Russian threat is used to justify even more waste of taxpayers’ $. Good for business strategy, dangerous for intl. peace & security”
It’s no surprise that NATO’s 29 countries collectively spend more on defense than Russia alone. -
“The persecution of the SPC [Serbian Orthodox Church] in North Macedonia, as well as the latest heightened tensions and pressure on the SPC diocese in Montenegro can be interpreted as part of the wider strategy of the West to counter Orthodoxy.”
NATO is no enemy of Orthodoxy as several NATO member states are predominantly Christian Orthodox. The Orthodox churches of Montenegro and North Macedonia have been seeking independence even before the break up of Yugoslavia. -
“The Ukrainian Navy’s claims that the Black Sea Fleet’s Smetlivy patrol vessel entered the closed area of the Sea Breeze 2019 exercise are untrue.”
Whether or not the Russian guided-missile destroyer Smetlivy sailed into a zone being used for multinational naval live-fire drills, the ship was present in the vicinity of the drills. Russia is demonstratively aggressive toward NATO’s presence in the Black Sea.