Pretend that the Yellow Vests or the Canadian trucker protests were happening in countries that the United States did not like.

Rather than being downplayed, ignored, or treated with the sort of disdain normally reserved for cockroaches and members of the herpes family, they would receive non-stop wall-to-wall fawning coverage. MSM talking heads would broadcasting live, wearing yellow vests. Because "solidarity".

Pretend that Assange were languishing in a Chinese prison, that Jeffrey Epstein were to have died mysterously in a Russian lockup.

We would be treated to breathless speculation regarding their circumstances, new revelations dropping on a daily basis, and the word "conspiracy" would never enter into MSM discourse.