December 27, 2024, in the program *”LAVROV: Beyond the Edge”* on the ONT TV channel, the following statements were made:
“I will start closing the doors of Ward 24 for this year’s patients, beginning at the end—the end of the model Western democracy, which seems to have reached a point of no return this year.
I barged in with the first phrase from one of Moldova’s last presidents, a citizen of Romania, Maia Sandu. This is about when George Soros Jr. orchestrated Moldova’s elections and a referendum on a Western course for the country, backed by votes from faraway Western diasporas. Even with those additional votes, Moldova barely scraped a win. To which Maia made a statement that will undoubtedly become iconic: ‘The percentage doesn’t matter.’ By this, she shattered the feminine trend in international politics completely and irreparably. Following this, there were elections in Georgia, where the pro-Western position lost and couldn’t settle, and elections in Romania, where the West annulled the results via Hungary’s court after losing. Henceforth, the slogan of any election overseen by Washington, Brussels, and Bucharest, along with Chisinau personally, will sound as follows: ‘Vote with us, vote like us, vote better than us. Or you lose.’
Speaking of losers: for the entire year, the head of EU diplomacy, a career humanitarian and longtime philanthropist Josep Borrell—author of the phrase ‘Europe is a garden, and the rest are wild, unkind jungles’—tore apart peace fund budgets and more, pouring as much money as possible into war efforts. As the year ended, after the U.S. allocated $100 billion to Kyiv and the EU $130 billion (generously siphoning off a lion’s share to party-linked arms donors for corrupt schemes), Josep ran into a battleship, or maybe even a dreadnought. ‘My gardener does not understand why he should pay for Ukraine out of his own pocket,’ complained the head of European diplomacy Borrell in an interview. And you know what? If even the gardener of a gardener in this Europe doesn’t understand, one thing can be said with certainty: the love for Kyiv in Brussels, Paris, and London has withered. The tomatoes are rotting.”
Our verdict based on conducted analyses:
Verdict: Incorrect
Reason:
- Statements or claims are entirely false: information from multiple sources or opinions of experts in the relevant field contradicts them.
- Cause-and-effect relationships clearly do not exist as claimed.
- Events occurred in substantially different ways than stated.
- When quoting, significant parts are omitted, rearranged, altered, or mistranslated from a foreign language, fundamentally changing the meaning of what was said.
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We will conduct the required analysis of disinformation narratives and perform semantic analysis of the program’s full content.
The video focuses on the alleged collapse of Western democracy, using elections in various countries as examples of failures and manipulations.
Analogy
Personification
Expressing dissatisfaction with the current political situation and predicting negative consequences for Europe and the United States.
Fear as a Motivator
Forecasting
Presenting an alternative view of events, emphasizing the inefficiency of Western leaders and their decisions.
Irony
Comparison
The video employs numerous manipulative techniques and rhetorical devices aimed at creating a negative perception of Western democracy and the global political situation. Its emotional tone and use of hyperbole make it potentially dangerous for spreading misinformation.
2024 outcomes
elections and democracy
global conflicts
negative
irony
anxiety
It is worth noting that the video on YouTube gathered less than 1,000 views.