this article will show how the empire is using doublespeak in most all of its 'foreign' affairs, in case you had any doubts;

Earlier parts of this intermittent series discussed NATO's projection and gaslighting.

Psychology Today defines confirmation bias as:

Once we have formed a view, we embrace information that confirms that view while ignoring, or rejecting, information that casts doubt on it. Confirmation bias suggests that we don’t perceive circumstances objectively. We pick out those bits of data that make us feel good because they confirm our prejudices. Thus, we may become prisoners of our assumptions.

Or, closer to the topic of this essay:

Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.

This quotation is from an interview of George Kennan by Thomas Friedman published in the New York Times twenty years ago. He was speaking about what was then called "NATO expansion" (later changed to the more anodyne – and deceptive – phrase "NATO enlargement". (I as a civil servant in the Canadian Department of National Defence used to amuse myself by seeing if I could sneak the forbidden "expansion" – an altogether more honest word – into briefing notes for the Higher Ups. As I recall, I got away with it about half the time. A trivial pleasure in the evolving disaster.).....https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/11/09/psychoanalysing-nato-confirmation-bias.html