Thread by @NATOpress

MYTH ❌ or FACT ✅?

We are setting the record straight!

Check out #Russia’s 🇷🇺 top five myths about #NATO ⤵️

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❌MYTH: #NATO is not interested in real dialogue w/ #Russia

✅FACT: NATO has been consistent in calling for dialogue and NATO’s offer to hold a NATO-Russia Council still stands. The ball is in Russia’s court.

Top 5 🇷🇺 about NATO: bit.ly/3oghQ4k

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❌MYTH: #NATO ignores proposal to move exercises away from “contact line” between NATO & 🇷🇺 forces

✅FACT: Allies' borders are not a “contact line.” NATO deployments are defensive & in line w/international commitments

Top 5 🇷🇺myths about NATO: bit.ly/3pjJP27

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❌MYTH: #Ukraine cannot join #NATO

✅FACT: Allies welcome 🇺🇦 aspirations to join NATO & stand by the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance.

Top 5 🇷🇺 myths about NATO: bit.ly/3G7pzHP

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❌ MYTH: #NATO rejects #Russia’s arms control proposals

✅ FACT: This is not a credible offer. There are no new 🇺🇸 missiles in Europe, but there are new 🇷🇺 missiles in Europe – the SSC-8.

Top 5 Russian myths about NATO: bit.ly/3EkihQq

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❌MYTH: #NATO is encircling & trying to contain #Russia

✅ FACT: Russia's land border is just over 20,000 km long. Of that, less than one-sixteenth is shared with NATO members.

Top 5 🇷🇺 myths about NATO: bit.ly/3ogUV8N

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