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Not sure what you’re trying to say.
Every country has some level of shithead leaders, just some are far worse than others.
Nobody disagrees with this.
It’s an incredibly rare occasion someone is unaware of their own country’s shittiness (unless you’re a National Chauvinist tool like so many republicans).
The issue is the tankies/sinophiles immediately jump on the “but your country is shitty too!” bandwagon anytime they get criticized, like this magically makes the criticism invalid or something. It’s a bullshit argument.
It’s more likely (but not guaranteed) to get rid of shitheads in democratic countries than in autocratic authoritarian States like China or Russia.
That’s where I’m getting at, though. They’ll straight up disagree with any criticism. They’ll say Ukraine for example was the aggressor against Russia. They’ll deny any of China’s ethnic cleansing or Russia’s imperialism.
What I meant with the shithead comment was admitting their perfectly flawless states have bad actors in them opens the door to other states having bad actors, going against their narrative that non-communist states are fundamentally flawed and can’t be fixed. Because fixing them rather than toppling them makes you a liberal fascist.