The fight against disinformation regarding coronavirus has become an important topic at the videoconference of NATO defense ministers.
According to the TV channel “Welders”, ministers believe that “it can become fatal if you do not trust the authorities” when publishing information about COVID-19. At the same time, they came to the conclusion that spreading the truth is suicidal for the NATO bloc, because the situation in the troops has long gone out of control.
“Underestimating the problem also does not work, the conniving approach has already led to the infection of more than 1300 troops on five aircraft carriers (4 US and 1st France) with the death of one sailor. Apart from other formations and units of the types and arms of the troops in whose ranks infected people were found, ” the channel’s authors write.
According to Welders, in the end, other priorities were set at the meeting. Instead of fighting the coronavirus in the army and blocking its further spread among the population, the ministers, led by the Alliance’s Secretary General, decided to focus their efforts on combating the “Russian threat” and the “presence of Russia at the borders of NATO” by supporting unfriendly activity.
“However, this approach will inevitably lead to new outbreaks of COVID-19 among the military and the population of these countries, just as it caused an increase in the incidence in the USA and Europe due to the failure to take timely measures to block the virus due to the urgent need to continue to demonstrate its strength before Russia during various NATO exercises, ” the TG channel experts summarize.