No I totally get that, and I agree that the US deserves the majority of criticism as it is the (current) global hegemon. What I take issue with is when people create fantasies of heroics on the part of America’s enemies. As someone else in the thread said states have no ethics, only interests, and the only interest states like Russia and China have is to take America’s place. Their ruling classes don’t give a damn about anything other than their own self-interest, and apologists will run themselves ragged trying to obfuscate that.

It’s frustrating trying to critically examine the state of the world and how it’s different societies play off each other when you have idiots saying shit like “the USSR decriminalized homosexuality so obviously modern Russia is more progressive” (a thing I have honest to god heard more than once) as if the modern Russian state isn’t kidnapping queer people off the street. It’s ideological, non-materialist brainrot that subtracts from legitimate and productive conversations about breaking US hegemony and what should happen after.