MAGA MAKE BELIEVE: HOW PUTIN’S PROPAGANDA BECAME AMERICA’S FAVORITE FAIRYTALE

Vladimir Putin’s fan club in MAGA-world has been working overtime to peddle a cartoonish narrative where Russia — poor, innocent Russia — had no choice but to steamroll Ukraine like a drunk guy plowing his pickup through a farmer’s market. According to this bedtime story, NATO’s “betrayal,” Biden’s warmongering, and Ukraine’s “Nazi infestation” left Putin no choice but to launch his “Special Military Operation.”