The ISW team drew attention to the fact that official Moscow continues to use the concept of "compatriots abroad" to justify its future aggression against NATO countries.
Putin is creating informational conditions to justify a war against NATO
The American Institute for the Study of War has warned that Russian and Belarusian dictators Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are increasingly repeating the lie that Russia is in an existential geopolitical conflict with an allegedly modern-day Nazi movement that is spreading beyond Ukraine.
What is essential to understand is that the head of the Kremlin and his team have previously applied the label "Nazism" to Western countries and individuals outside of Ukraine. However, the alleged coordinated rhetoric of Putin, Lukashenko, Naryshkin and Volodin on January 27 indicates that the Kremlin can increasingly call "Nazi " for any conditional adversary and possibly the entire West.
The Kremlin may have decided that the simple narrative of Russia and other states fighting a geopolitical Nazi force is a more effective narrative line than Putin's attempt to appeal to Russian citizens and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Empire with a "Russian world" ideology".
Most often, Putin mentions the Baltic states
Recently, the Russian dictator also publicly accused the Baltic countries of accepting "Nazism".
According to American analysts, this is part of the ongoing efforts of official Moscow to create informational conditions for future Russian aggression against NATO members.
The President of the Russian Federation cynically lies about the fact that the Baltic countries have declared thousands of people living there to be "subhuman", "depriving" them of their "most basic rights" and subjecting them to "persecution".
ISW continues to assess how Kremlin officials and mouthpieces may be trying to create information conditions for possible future Russian aggression in the Baltic states and other NATO members such as Finland under the guise of protecting "compatriots abroad".
