Yeah the more I learn about the sino-soviet split the more annoyed I get. It kinda reeks of colonizer brainworms. Then the chinese got those brainworms wrt Cambodia and Afghanistan. I know it’s more complicated than that and I’m being reductive as hell and it’s just now something I’m only kind of learning about so I know my views can change again, but as I see it now, it gives me the vibes of “we need them to live in suffering for a few decades more until we’re ready” (I heard blowback pod quote Molotov about “needing 5-65 years” and I’ve been looking for the quote ever since). I get that mentality, but it’s kind of just reformism with more steps.
I do kinda get it though, it’s easy to say I would’ve done otherwise after several million dead and the first opportunity for peace in several decades.