The US did start it, by constantly poking with threats and actions here and there. Like in 2014 when they overthrew the actual democratically elected Ukraine government for the crime of being "Too friendly with Russia" and then propped up the current Nazi regime that is completely russo-phobic.

They even went so far as to rename a city because it had a "Russian spelling".

Numero uno problem, you're conflating "socialist" with a whole lot of other "left ideologies" that are closer to right-wing than they are marxist-leninist, the actual leftist side

Dos, see my edit to address your edit

If you refuse to see the proxy war the US is waging with Ukraine via the regime they propped up for it and their continued imperialist/empire expansionist plans with NATO, then you are not "all about criticizing the US for its many MANY faults"

Excuse me?? How could you not notice all the Russophobia and Sinophobia? The russophobia crap got really bad when Russia finally decided to do something about the Nazi Regime in Ukraine propped up by the US empire in 2014

The anti-china crap has been present for years now

Yeppers! Just who exactly labels it as "misinformation"? Certainly not certain western "news" orgs that take directions from a certain empire!

Of course friend, because there is already plenty of western "news" sources infesting Lemmy everywhere I look, I am just balancing things out a bit. Maybe you should try reading it sometime instead of just toeing the current western narratives on it

Well they are the uniparty, so it really does not matter which "side" wins to them 😁