[sbst32]

In many cases it's a form of a psychological defense - it's way too difficult to live in a reality where your country is killing droves of innocent people so your brain can switch to the "let's pretend that it's a giant lie and continue on" mode. It's the path of the least resistance: "we are the good guys, they are the bad guys, I can live with myself, all is good".

[luckylion]

That may be the case for some Russians (though for those living abroad? I'm not sure, there's a reason they're living abroad after all), but for Germans in Germany or Americans born and raised in the US?

It seems to me that at least for these cases, it's more of an "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing. They've lost connection to the society around them and perceive it as hostile, so anything that the mainstream (or the government as the mainstream's enforcer) views negatively they automatically view in a more positive light. And since their enemy is always lying, they'll eat up anything that agrees with that position.

[tshaddox]

I don’t know about Germany, but in the U.S. it’s almost exclusively people who have established a group identity which demands that they recognize the Biden administration (and generally the American left) as the foremost evil in the world.