A slightly different tactic is to treat something as a given when it is not. I keep hearing Ukraine is good, the government is a shining star, Zelenski is a freedom fighter as the bases for the argument they are about to make for say... justification to do something the American people would generally disapprove of. But we can do this because we defend good. So perhaps we could call it Noble Purpose Lie. Ditto for global warming. They use it there too. You may not question the "fact". I hear people around me repeat it. I call bullshit on it and then point to a few actual truths about Ukraine that are not at all gloriously freedomy. Sometimes it shuts them up, sometimes they note my stance so they can write me up in the Commie notebook (you know, the one they have been so happy to be in with their Maoist notions, but now... UKRAINE!).

I like Ukrainians. But their government aint the bastion of freedom.