It's true that US propaganda machine is unparalleled, but at this point one has to work hard not to see the gap between the narrative they've been fed and the reality.

Russian economy was supposed to collapse within months, Russia was supposed to be isolated geopolitically, Russia was supposed to run out of weapons, Russian military was supposed to crumble, western wonder weapons were supposed to be game changers, and so on.

It's been around two years now, and literally every one of these predictions has turned out to be completely false. This is openly reported in mainstream western media nowadays.

Given that, I fail to see how any person capable of even a modicum of critical thought continue going along with the narrative.

And we see this same behavior manifest itself in many other areas. For example, people continue to believe articles claiming that China's economy is going to collapse despite decades of such articles being false.

Continuing to believe media that has been so consistently wrong does require at least a certain amount of gullibility in my opinion.