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.
Ok I don’t even disagree with you there, but does Kyiv belong to Russia too?
Did Berlin belong to America?
Is Ukraine trying to take over the world?
Was Germany?
Uh, yeah?
Uh, no.
The Nazis were indeed trending in the direction of attempting world domination (while imploding), though “West Berlin” was a bullshit state.
Does Taiwan belong to China?