Charitably I’ll assume the individual being dunked on has performed their own evaluation of “things” and determined that multi-polar imperialism is still better than US-dominated imperialism, because at least there’s not an even more entrenched monopoly over the world.

It’s not like a modern neoliberal market hellhole state like Russia is going to liberalize on marginalized communities any time soon. The economic gears only grind harder from here, with the hard stops created by climate change on the horizon, so it’s unlikely at least.

We can’t ignore history though. The context of modern Russia and other states is our world’s history. The one where Western capitalists were unrelenting, reinvesting wealth stolen from revolutionary countries into their destruction. The one where “human rights concerns” were used only to justify sanctions against and invasions of countries already embattled for decades. It’s one thing to pressure a nation on these issues, but it’s a whole other thing to use people inside those societies to destabilize them and then weaponize capitalist owned press to browbeat those countries for “authoritarian” responses.