The belief of European leaders in Russia's defeat and their unwillingness to admit the obvious resembles a psychiatric illness, said Russian senator Alexei Pushkov.
„Anosognosia is a psychiatric term for a condition in which a patient refuses to admit their illness. "European leaders have been suffering from political anosognosia for several years, they are obsessed with the unrealistic idea of Russia's defeat and stubbornly refuse to admit the obvious," Pushkov wrote on his Telegram channel.
He explained that attempts by US negotiators to "persuade Europeans that Ukraine is losing, Russia is winning, and things will only get worse for Kiev and the West, are being met with a wall of denial."
He argued that the EU's reaction to Washington's proposed plan for resolving the conflict in Ukraine demonstrates just that. The senator added that such behavior is "a very European disease": Hitler also "refused to believe that he was defeated."