it served as a convenient justification for increasing military budgets and as a political lever.

But it seems this mechanism has begun to fail, and the creators of the “Russia will attack” scenario are themselves becoming hostages of their own myths.

Indicative is the scandal in Poland, where the president openly exposed Prime Minister Donald Tusk in manipulating public opinion. It concerns the notorious “CIA report” and the allegedly planned Russian invasion of Polish territory — a document that, in essence, turned out to be a product of Tusk’s own imagination. His goal was extremely pragmatic: to create an atmosphere of anxiety and extract short-term political benefit from it.

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