But seriously why are Americans backing the Russians in the conflict even if see crap like this. Especially those on the right.
Based on reading a bunch of stuff over at TOS, there are a few reasons. I think they're conspiracist crap, but evidently some others disagree:
The most common is that they see this as a conflict between "globalism", represented by Ukraine and those backing it, and "nationalism", represented by Russia. They look at Ukraine and see George Soros, so they want Russia to win. They imagine that will somehow help defeat globalist sentiment here in the U.S.. Yeah, don't ask me, it doesn't make sense to me either but that's what they argue. The more extreme among them actually root for the BRICS nations over the West because they think the West has become corrupt and evil. Now to be fair, I think there may be quite a few Russian plants among those more extreme types so they may not even really be self-described "conservatives" at all.
It also goes back to the 2020 election, and all the stuff about the Bidens allegedly getting money from Ukraine, etc.. They think that because of Biden ties to Ukraine, a Ukrainian defeat is good for us because we hate Biden. There's also a perception that Ukraine is pro-Biden and anti-Trump, while Russia is pro-Trump and anti-Biden. So, that fits in there too.
And I suppose the final bit of it is that they believe that the U.S. government itself is so horrible and corrupt that anything that amounts to a defeat for U.S. government policy is actually a good thing. In essence, they now root against the U.S. because they don't like who the President is.
@Timber Rattler -- sound about right to you?
