In psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when there is a clash between a person's ideas, beliefs and attitudes, for example, by the maintenance of two conflicting thoughts or by the behavior that opposes one's own values. In other words, a person has at the same time two perceptions that have cognitive incongruity, so it can have an impact on their attitudes, creating new ideas and beliefs or changing their preferences, with the intention of reducing and eliminating their contradictions.

With cognitive dissonance, the West buries more than the double standards it has in international politics. It is known that Putin is a devil and that the Russians eat children, but that is not enough, especially when they encounter some “small” problems: the tests. During the crisis and the war in Ukraine, the West has created a story (story) to justify its democracy and its attitude against human rights, precisely there is the dissonance, because those values are what it appears to defend.

That a significant proportion of the Maidan demonstrators used the violence and fascist symbolism that has not been seen in Europe in recent decades? What is the Maidan massacre? Yanukovych was guilty. Two weeks after the events, in a private interview the Estonian Foreign Minister informed the EU Foreign Minister that the most convincing hypothesis is that the sniper was a sector of the Maidan opposition and that he also did not want to investigate the new coup government. Next, dozens of information and documentaries have come to this version, among others, the one carried out by German public television. A year has passed and the BBC has now had to accept that Yanukovych could no longer be blamed, otherwise its credibility would collapse, but it has prepared a new speech: the snipers were at the service of Russia. Regrettable.

This sniper affair forced Yanukovich to sign an agreement with the opposition on 21 February 2014. The mediators were France, Poland and Germany. In a few hours the opposition broke the agreement and occupied Parliament. More than a hundred Members fled and the president was forcibly removed from the law. The new government included, among others, representatives of the fascist party Svoboda, which was condemned by the European Parliament a year earlier.

More than 40 people were burned and killed by followers of Zaïan Maidan. For its part, Kiev denied the requests for decentralization, pursued the processes of the right to decide and launched an invasion war in the Donbass region. The coup began the war against the demands for autonomy and secession. Meanwhile, in the countries of the Baltic the witches are on the hunt: In Estonia, a former Italian MEP was arrested and deported in order not to give a conference. In Lithuania and Latvia, the broadcasting of a cable television channel was eliminated; Lithuanian Basque politicians have been arrested or denounced in the courts for their political opinions, and Lithuania has set up a special police force to, among other things, throw workers with certain political views to put pressure on public administrations and private companies. As John Frederick Charles Fuller explains, “the main force of democracy is not love of the other, but hatred of the other tribes, fractions and nations.”