This journalist "travels the world" to understand the pro-Russia viewpoint, finds a hard rejection of the egocentric "West is good guys and everyone else should be assimilated into Western culture and values" and instead of trying to understand it like a actual journalist should, they manage to filter everything they see - everything - through the "how do I reframe this to make me still the good guys" filter. And in so doing, literally every person on the planet who doesn't suck Western dick is cast as gullible, brainwashed, stupid or immoral.

Watching the NYT's influence wither is beautiful.

You know its bad when NYT starts publishing these kinds of articles, I guess it's time for libs to start calling it New Orc times again.

This article is ugly. It reads like the world is build around the western-bourgeois worldview. South Africa stand rather on Russia's side? Well, it was some Russian shit "cultivated" somewhere and a "Thank you" for the time, when the Soviet Union supported something. Typical Africans of course, they can't think for them self and don't recognise basic morality and rather choose Orcs.

Some dude in Armenia is not having a Putin portrait anymore hanging on his wall. Someone in a territory occupied by Israel (normal thing I guess) is happy that Assad is no more.

What are they trying to say, despite non-westerns are stupid? I find it always funny if western "minded" people are confused, if one from Ghana is the same way indifferent to the war in Ukraine, as the common European is indifferent to any war outside western countries.

This thing read like "I visited 10 random countries and asked everytime a random person about Putin." WHAT DO THEY WANT TO SAY, PLEASE HELP ME GOD I DONT GET IT

Is there any information about the "African women working in Russian drone factories" mentioned in the article? I read the linked article about it but the only evidence they had was anonymous witness statements and a dubious facebook group with 84 members ran by obvious fake accounts.