Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?
EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!
Get context, get ideological or tune out. There's not really a need to have position on everything as a leftist. I care about this because I've talked in person to Ukranians that have fled the war and have been devastated by it, I know quite a few ukranians and russians online as well so that's why I care more about it. On the other side I have almost no context on things going on in lets say south east asia so I'll let my ideology guide myself which is to side with pro-leftist stuff and being against american interests. If it's more complicated than that and I don't look at the context I don't think I should hold an opinion on it or speak on it.
It's very understandable to not be too into the comments of the news mega section but 72T does great updates during the week there which are very informative so you could check that out to get a bit more context overall.