NATO not just plays war, but prepares for it: media manipulations for February 5

This is reported by Espreso.TV.

According to the National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation, on February 5, foreigners launched three major manipulations.

Manipulation: American economist Jeffrey Sachs said in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel: "The only solution to this war in Ukraine is negotiations, and the key issue that has been the cause of this war since the beginning in 2014 is NATO expansion.”

Manipulation: "What the EU is doing is criminal, they know that Ukraine cannot win, no matter how much money is spent. This will lead to hundreds of thousands of new Ukrainian deaths. The collective West/NATO will lose if they don't start sending NATO troops into Ukraine, which will mean... World War III and mutual destruction," Italian journalist Angelo Giuliano wrote on his page on X.

Manipulation: China's Global Times wrote: "Under the guise of the ongoing exercise, with officials and politicians talking almost casually about World War III, NATO is not just playing war, but preparing for it, and may even provoke it.”

• On February 4, Russian propagandists began spreading fake information online about the alleged destruction of more than "70 churches of the canonical UOC" in Kyiv.
• On February 4, Russian propaganda spread a new fake that the UK had allegedly prepared a plan to secretly deploy NATO to Ukraine.
• On February 4, Russian propaganda spread a new fake that Ukraine was "increasingly collapsing" and that Russia had allegedly overtaken the West in military technology.