Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 why right wing Americans like Tucker Carlson and others seem to be putting a lot of blame onto NATO and the United States for this, and are borderline sympathetic towards Putin on this, and why they're saying Putin is gonna nuke us if we don't back off potentially aiding Ukraine?
The GOP are taking money from Russians, and have been doing so for many, many years. Donald Trump been taking money from Russia since the 80s. The 2016 election was a Russian psyops to get Trump elected and to essentially have a Putin ally in the White House, sharing American military secrets to Russia and ultimately destabilize America because it has becoming "too diverse" aka non-white, and Russia is still majority CAC that America wants to get back to.
All of this conflict you seeing now, is because Vladimir Putin is apparently very ill (terminally ill??) and has Parkinson's that is apparently crippling him. He wants to go down in the history books as this great modern day Russian Tsar that crushes the West with excessive force and nuclear weapons.