Yeah you are right the US peddle propaganda. But they are not alone.Many Western media are hardly a paragon of objectivity also. The only difference is that the Russians are quite capable of making things up whereas Western propaganda is usually more subtle. Instead of telling outright lies the MSM simply cherry picks the truth. They do not print all the news that's fit to print, but all the news that fits the narrative. And if the story does not fit the narrative, but is too big to ignore, it will get 'spun' into position. Even - or especially - in democracies it is necessary to 'manufacture consent'.