They’ll either provide moral equivalence by saying the USA is no different than Putinstan, or these dupes will claim Putin is a fine Christian paladin.
Yep. The US equivalent would be the kenyan shutting down all but one Spanish station in Los Angeles. That’s hardly what is happening. Yet look at the scholars here making such a false moral equivalence.
Yes, their comparisons make no sense, but sense is not what they want to make. What they want to make is what the military calls obscurants (i.e., smoke). They want to hide the truth about Putinstan and president-for-life putin.
Note too that it used to be the Left that fawned over foreign despots, disparaged America while comparing it unfavorably to some new utopia, which were always self-evident dystopias, and constantly exaggerated the faults of the America people. Now, we’ve have these same types of people on the Right who see Putin’s so-called phony conservative regime as a model for America. These Putinistas cannot see Putin and Russia as the aggressor against its weak neighbors, and they see the restoration of the Soviet Empire as no different than US foreign policy. They’ve become the blame America firsters.