The narrative makes Americans feel like they're fighting on the side of somthing good and right - they don't want to look too deeply at the situation, their own complicity - they just want a place to slap their blue-yellow virtue signaling sticker and feel good.

Putin is Boris Badenov the cartoon informed kids say.

That's why Hollywood movies have happy endings to go with the popcorn buckets.

And that way they don't have to pay attention to what the USA/NATO was/is doing. This article serves that crowd.

It quite amazes me because they need to just look at US behavior in the last half decade to see that this is an insane out of control military-industrial monster, feeding The perpetual War Racket.

Funny that they have the absurd nerve to criticize Russian propaganda when they suck on the corporate entertainment USnews teat all the time.