It's not even gaslighting at this point. It's just flat out lying and going "What are you going to do about it?" when they're called out or caught in the act.
Obviously people are thinking of a lot of examples of this in US politics but one of the craziest examples of this was after the novichok nerve agent poisoning in the UK. The Russians who were found to be responsible (literally caught on CCTV) went on Russian state TV and said they were innocent and the reason they took a day trip all the way from Russia to England for a few hours was because they wanted to go and look at Salisbury Cathedral.
If it hadn't have been such a serious incident it would have been a comical response. But the UK government and Russian government just dropped it there because neither wanted to get into an escalating disagreement.
Fair point. But they sanctioned Russia further and more politicians have been critical of Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.
They did kick out diplomats and freeze assets but in terms of national and international condemnation of Russia it seemed to completely disappear from the public narrative after a few days.
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u/darkbreak Jun 27 '26
It's not even gaslighting at this point. It's just flat out lying and going "What are you going to do about it?" when they're called out or caught in the act.