I am strongly pro-Ukrainian. On the right, some people tend to like Putin because Trump does, or because Biden doesn't. There is a segment on the left who think Russia is justified because of NATO, which has to be bad because it used to be opposed to a Warsaw Pact that doesn't even exist any more. They appear to take seriously the idea that Putin's war is about getting rid of Nazis in Ukraine.
The worst are the "realists" who think that Russia just deserves to invade another country because it is in their sphere of influence. Kissinger or Chomsky.
Ideology is believing or pretending to be believe something obviously contrary to reality because you are supposed to believe it. You might even know it's a lie, and know that everyone else knows it, and know that everyone else knows you know it, but it doesn't make a difference.
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What they actually say is that NATO is a US instrument. Every NATO intervention serves a US objective and f***s the place. NATO ruined Yugoslavia because Yugoslavia was presenting an interesting east-west hybrid and the CIA was terrified US would lose hegemony because of this. Etc.
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