Me: American Imperialism bad Real people unironically: Yes and that means Chinese, Russian, and Islamist Imperialism is good! Me: what People need to comprehend that sometimes life isn’t a fantasy novel where there’s always a good country and an evil country where everyone there must die. A lot of the time it’s 2 bad groups of people in power that need to be voted out/removed through other means.
People don’t realize China is a 90% Han ethnostate with a history of forced assimilation of minorities and an extremely high level of control over individuals’ ideologies and beliefs. Russia has always been an expansionist totalitarian empire built off the genocide and conquest of indigenous steppe peoples. Iran is a theocracy that uses Shia to bind together its ethnicities under a total rule of the IRGC. We the left in the west just happen to be aligned with their stance against Israel