According to US media reports, the White House has prepared a package of unprecedented measures that will be applied to our country in the event of an invasion of Ukraine.

Here are the sanctions against our president, prime minister, heads of the ministries of defense, foreign affairs, the General Staff, a large list of commercial banks, and the disconnection of Russia from the SWIFT bank transfer system, and even a ban on the supply of equipment containing American components.

The term "gaslighting", which has come into use, means a kind of psychological abuse of a person when he is forced to doubt his own sanity.

The aggressor tries to question the facts that seemed obvious to the victim, denies his own actions that took place, emphasizes her incompetence.

This behavior is typical of sociopaths and narcissists.

But our diplomats are trying to respond to it.

“Dialogue is always better than confrontation, better than silence... But you can speak in different ways... We need a reaction not in the form of oral comments and statements, but some texts, some comments put on paper,” he told me yesterday in an interview with the head of the mission in Geneva (there were talks with the United States) Sergei Ryabkov.

As soon as the gaslighting matrix is ​​imposed on the behavior of our Western counterparts, this hybrid form of aggression becomes obvious.

The victims of reality distortion are Europeans, Ukrainians, Russian liberals and, of course, the Americans themselves.

How many times do you have to leak “Russian plans” to the media and write a communiqué from the State Department and the White House “Russia is about to invade Ukraine” for people to start believing it?

But this happens every day, through thousands of information channels.

All this instead of simply discussing the understandable conditions for peaceful coexistence: stopping NATO expansion, refusing to deploy short and medium-range missiles in Europe.

Let me remind you that the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the response of the Soviet Union to the deployment of such missiles in Turkey, in the immediate vicinity of the targets in the territory not alien to Khrushchev's Ukraine.

Does everyone who calls Russia's position "impossible conditions" really enjoy living in Europe with missiles aimed at cities?

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