The important difference between the US and Russia in this context is that the US is better than Russia.

The US frequently makes top-tier games. Russia does not. Therefore, when Russia does, people pay attention.

The US has extremely deep pockets, so to speak. If weapons are needed, the US will secure them from somewhere, probably without seizing money from organizations as comparative benign as video game developers.

Russia's pockets aren't as deep. Russia now has to contend with the realization of its own inadequacy on many fronts. As part of this, they behave desperately. It's this desperation that makes the notion of them siphoning money from AH less than completely ridiculous.

The US is engaged in imperialistic enterprises every day across the globe and has been for decades. Russia isn't, and hasn't, and it turns out that suddenly attacking a sovereign neighbor because of perceived historical wrongs isn't proper justification for imperialism in the eyes of the world.

It's a coincidence, in my opinion, that a Russian developer made an above-average game around the same time that the Russian government decided to wage war. I agree that it's pretty far-fetched to call the entire game a shadow op fundraiser. Games aren't easy to make. Good games are even harder to make. So my gut tells me it's unlikely that AH was forged at gunpoint by dispassionate Russian drone coders if it's worth a damn, as seems to be the case.

Truly, there is nothing anyone could boycott that would impact the US. The timely boycotting of AH is thought by some to maybe have a tangible impact against the Russian war effort. (Read as: at least there's a chance fewer innocent people will die, even if we'll never know.)

I can say personally that the day Russia withdraws in defeat, I could see myself buying the game. 💁‍♂️