it's worth noting that the statement about the war in ukraine is written by the people who run the news megathread, not the whole site, and the degree to which people agree with them seems to vary widely. It's been the subject of a fair amount of arguing on the site in the past.

But the seeming majority opinion of say, lemmy.world, of outright supporting NATO unconditionally is probably further than even the most skeptical hexbear user would go, give or take a few outliers. The majority lie somewhere inbetween, with most people disliking both russia and NATO, and thinking that NATO influence is serving to prolong the war, not shorten it.

So from the perspective of a US liberal they are outliers yes, but they aren't a monolith who all love russia either, and they are very accustomed to being shat on from both sides of the US and EU political spectrum as russian bots, CCP shills, etc. because of their communist views.