Also completely garbage take that relies entirely on ignoring reality and psychologizing perceived enemies

But it must be underlined that the Russian and Chinese governments respond, not as anti-imperialist forces, but rather with their own plans for control and dominance.

There is no evidence of this. China is not merely weaker imperialism than the US. China has not dropped a single bomb in 35 years. That’s not a Portugal to Spain. That’s an entirely different class. China is not “carving up a sphere of influence” in the imperialist sense, nor is Russia. That phrasing emerged to describe the behaviors of Portugal, Spain, France, The Netherlands, England, and the US in their globe spanning military adventures to literally subjugate entire chunks of the world and bring the subjugated peoples’ wealth into the economies of the subjugator. There is literally no equivalent analysis for China and Russia.

But even more ridiculous is that we must oppose NATO expansion by focusing on improving living conditions. What the actual fuck? The only way to oppose military expansion is by stopping that expansion. In 4 years of conflict against a smaller weaker opponent, Russia has not made any attempts to expand into Ukraine and take it over and extract its wealth. Including the 2014 invasion of Crimea, it has only ever responded to its security assessment of NATO expansion. Unfortunately for people with actual national security responsibility, opposing NATO by voting for peace and focusing on living standards is not a real option and anyone who says that’s the only legitimate way to oppose NATO is no better than an advocate for NATO expansion.

And I mean that literally. If you watch a transnational nuclear military running live-fire simulations of invasions of foreign countries and say that the only legitimate opposition to it is non-violent, you’re on their side.