While diplomacy is usually exercised with tact, intelligence and restraint, it seems that Russian embassies around the world have become disinformation and propaganda agencies, going so far as to be belligerent and cavalier towards host countries and Internet users. .
Journalists from France Info have identified Twitter messages from various Russian embassies to expose the warmongering side of Russian diplomats, which makes them enemy entities in democracies.
Embassies in particular endorse the thesis of denazification, as evidenced by this tweet from the Russian embassy in Chile: “We will help you to unmask neo-Nazism, another aspect of the culture ‘so close’ to the kyiv regime. This exploitation of the “neo-Nazi” narrative of the Ukrainian government obtains significant support among the Russian population.
The Nazification Thesis
The German Embassy in South Africa responded to a tweet of his Russian counterpart endorsing the Nazification thesis. The answer is delightful: “Sorry, but we can’t stay silent here. It’s way too cynical.
In Ukraine, Russia is killing innocent children, women and men for its own interests. She does not fight Nazism. Shame on those who fall into the trap. (Unfortunately, we are a bit of an expert on Nazism.)”
In Australia, the Russian Embassy does not hesitate, in a tweet, to pervert the truth: “The nationalist forces did not let the civilians out of Mariupol and Volnovakha. The images of the major free media have shown us the opposite. Mariupol has become a martyr city where civilians are killed and denied humanitarian corridors.
cavalier response
To a French citizen who is worried about the situation, the Russian Embassy in France responds cavalierly: “You are a fine example of Russophobia to demonstrate the true intellectual level of your adversaries. So we’ll go back to diplomacy.
A media iron curtain has descended on Russia, and the media are instructed not to use the word “war” or the verb “invade” to describe the massacre in Ukraine. Orwell must be turning in his grave… We find here all the processes and techniques of Soviet propaganda during the Cold War: “negation or inversion of the facts, camouflage of the truth, monopolization of the channel, censorship, etc. “.
“The fabrication of consent”, to use Walter Lippmann’s expression, is used in a criminal way by Vladimir Putin and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, and relayed by the Russian embassies.
With war crimes charges already looming over Putin and the Russian army — we all see live civilians being bombed and killed and the sovereignty of a democracy crushed by force — the Canadian government cannot remain powerless in the face of these ambassadors of hate.
Back in the USSR
Faced with such behavior, which is more Stalinist than diplomatic, it is urgent that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, expel the Russian diplomats from the country without delay. As a song says: Back in the USSR…
The embassy and consulates will then be able to serve as residences for Ukrainian refugees.