I don’t think wholesale blind support or blind condemnation are correct in this instance. Blind condemnation of the war is an obviously liberal take. In the long term the war is likely to have positive effects on BRI countries and a deservedly negative effect on NATO countries (I took a bit of guilty pleasure in hearing that NATO officers are currently trapped in Mariupol).

I’m just saying that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation isn’t the same thing as a Communist International and shouldn’t be treated as such. It’s possible to say the war will have a good outcome but be critical of the conservative ideology of the entity leading the charge (essentially asking ‘do ends always justify the means?’). We also can’t assume allies will remain allies after their current goals are achieved. Iran and Saudi Arabia’s allyship is tenuous at best, for example, and the voting out of Imran Khan shows how the SCO and BRI can be unbalanced by outside influences. I would like to believe the SCO can bring the countries in its influence closer to Chinese Communism, but without proletarian revolution that’s not a guarantee.

I feel the closest historical parallel to the current ideological shift in the global south is the rise of social democracy in Post-WWI Western Europe, which generally sought to improve living conditions and a modicum of labor rights, but wasn’t exactly a success for the Comintern.

I’m welcome to being proven wrong, however, as time passes and we see how these alliances play out.