In recent decades, a segment of the global Left has looked upon the U.S. government as the Great Satan in international affairs, responsible for the world's major ills.  This warped vision became particularly apparent during the Russian government's military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine, when major organizations with this worldview, although supposedly antiwar and anti-imperialist, focused their criticism on the U.S. government, NATO, and Ukraine and gave the Putin regime a free pass for its imperialist aggression.