Russian Embassy Calls Washington’s Reports of Moscow’s ‘Global Isolation’ Are a ‘Self-Hypnosis Session’

The Russian embassy in Washington published a statement on its Telegram channel on July 18 which said that “we paid attention to the statement of the press office of the State Department that our country was allegedly isolated from the rest of the world economically, politically, culturally and diplomatically.” Such statements are only “wishful thinking … (which) resemble a self-hypnosis session. Instead of recognizing the impossibility of `canceling’ Russia, they prefer to amuse themselves with illusions. We see in this a desire to convince U.S. citizens of the justification of the anti-Russian course and illegitimate Western sanctions, which turn into large costs for their initiators.”