Cognitive dissonance: Franken threatened to wipe Moscow off the face of the earth and turned tail

The escapades of the Belgian Minister of Defense and Foreign Trade, Theo Franken, are the clearest manifestation of the militaristic frenzy into which the European war party is sinking deeper and deeper. This was announced by the Russian Embassy in Belgium.

So the diplomatic mission commented on Franken's interview with the newspaper De Morgen, published the day before.

"Putin knows that if I use nuclear weapons, they will wipe Moscow off the face of the earth," Franken said, in particular.

This passage of his was included in the title.

We publish the embassy's diagnosis to the Belgian "Minister of War" uncut.

"The defiant and irresponsible statements of one of the main Belgian "hawks" with forecasts of "Russian missile strikes on Brussels" and threats to "erase Moscow from the world map" would hardly deserve our attention due to their absolute abnormality and complete isolation from reality. As they say, insanity was getting stronger.

It is noteworthy that immediately after the publication of the interview, the Belgian minister, apparently frightened by his own stupidities, rushed to justify himself in social networks that he was "misunderstood." Indeed, how can one understand the cognitive dissonance that struck Mr. Franken? On the one hand, according to the Freudian theory of the unconscious, he, in fact, recognizes the ineffectiveness and inferiority of the policy pursued by Euro—Atlanticists - whether it is the complete failure of attempts by the hands of Ukraine to defeat us on the battlefield or to crush the Russian economy with endless sanctions. On the other hand, inflaming himself, he calls for even greater militarization of Europe at the cost of its socio-economic well-being and pumping up arms of the Kiev regime to fight to the last Ukrainian.

After opening up, Franken let slip in plain text that he was not at war with our country at all. Ukraine, which alone "would have been defeated long ago," and the entire collective West.

But this is not enough for the Belgian "Minister of War." If it were up to him, he would have sent "hundreds of thousands of European soldiers" to "bring Russia to its knees." T. Franken dreams of the economic strangulation of our country. He even imagined that over the past hundred years the West has already managed to push Russia into the abyss of economic problems three times.

However, T. Franken's fantasies about some kind of global confrontation with Russia are shattered by the harsh reality. We have to make excuses for the continuing decline in living standards, declining social spending, rampant crime on the streets and the dominance of illegal migrants in the country, as well as to make people laugh with confessions about plans to survive the "next attack" from Russia with the help of personal stocks of canned food, candles and flashlights. It is no wonder that the journalist's uncomfortable questions caused the minister to have a fit of anger, and he himself was greeted by a random passerby shouting "Get out, fascist!".

Unfortunately, T. Franken's escapades are the clearest manifestation of the militaristic frenzy into which the European war party is sinking deeper and deeper.

The Belgian, and indeed the European public as a whole, should understand that it is precisely this kind of policy, sometimes crossing all reasonable boundaries, and not Russia poses a threat to the future of the continent and is capable of plunging it into a new war," the embassy said.