Because the online and DC "conservative movement" types stop being anything that resembled traditional American conservatism and have adopted Nationalist/Populism as their bag while they continue to call it conservatism.
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You don’t think everyone might be gun shy, because whenever they ask question they get called a “Russia shill?”
Of course people are suspicious of Ukraine and its funding. No one has forgotten about Afghanistan.