Wondering about this. Like "putin schill" gets thrown around so lightly, and what's being said is "you're not even wrong, you're just a brainwashed puppet making puppet noises at the behest of your sinister masters".
Like the libs don't even see it as an argument, it's just evil magic orc speech or something. Whatever we're saying is wrong because putin is making us say it, somehow
Thinking about how it ties in to ignorance or denial of various atrocities. Like " hey, Joe did this horrible thing" and getting back "no he didn't, and that didn't happen, and if it did you only think it's bad because putin mind controlled you" kind of thing.
It goes back to the old idea that communists are nefarious brainwashers that can manipulate the minds of people on a whim.
Which, if I remember my history, was invented during the Korean War when US soldiers kept defecting and explaining the crimes against humanity the US was committing to DPRK officials. "Our boys would never refuse to participate in an immortal mass slaughter! It must be... uh... um... BRAIN WASHING!"