>> Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many

>> Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many cases, is still doing. > People who think like that are progressives. However many Russia-firsters in the West are right-wingers. Which just goes to show that extreme distrust is eminently exploitable and often gets you to the same place regardless of where you started. There is very much a tendency by some on the left to take "anti-(US)-imperialism" to such an extreme that they become apologists for any anti-US imperialists they come across. I've seen the same thing with COVID. Left-wing "anti-imperialist" websites pushing similar paranoid narratives about vaccines and lockdowns, etc. that would be at home on a far-right website.