Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.
They’ve been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren’t Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it’s bots or wumao. Human beings can’t possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.
That’s literally what Capitalism is though, why are you singling out Russia as if the states on the other side of the conflict were any different?
Who even put those Russian oligarchs in power anyway? Something something undemocratic dissolution of the USSR