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There are some Americans, who upon learning that the US is not the mythological good guy it's propaganda portrayed it as, are dealt such severe psychic damage that the only way their fractured mind is able to cope is to just assume the opposite worldview must be true.
The key takeaway is that they're not capable of thinking for themselves. They require others to tell them what to think, and that's either going to be US or Russian propaganda.
That first paragraph is poetic
There are loads of people who think that about their own country. There are also loads of people who think that any country at all can be perfectly good or perfectly evil, or that in a conflict, one must always be right and the other wrong.
People love to shit on the US for it's aggressive meddling in other countries, but somehow forget that China and Russia do the exact same, you just hear about it less.
And that other countries do it just on a smaller scale.
There's actually a name for that in politics. It's the rubber band effect and it's entirely human.
The opposite kind of is true. But the enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend and it's hard to say if the US and Russia are even truly enemies when they both bend to capital.