The reality of the world is that if you want a self-determined life and a self determined government, you <i>MUST</i> be better armed and prepared to fight than any bully, abuser, or autocrat. If not, they will soon take your lunch and your government — <i>every time</i>.<p>Claiming you want "peace" without accounting for how you will defeat the bullies, abusers, and autocrats only helps them, not you. It brings war, not peace. Bullies, abusers, and autocrats do not give a fork about scolding and condemnation; if they succeed in taking what they want, regardless of any talk, they <i>WILL</i> take more — failure to stop them is literally seen as permission to do more.<p>So, this is the action of absolute fools and cowards. Specifically, Useful Idiots in the Vladmir Lenin sense. Or worse yet, the actions of active supporters of genocidal autocracies.<p>(And, do not even try to do whataboutism about the failings of the Democratic nations. Even their worst historical failings do not begin to compare vs the active genocide and war crimes being systematically committed <i>today</i> by the autocracies today, Russia in Ukraine, China on Tibet and Uighurs, Myanmar, etc..).<p>This kind of bullshirt move by sniveling cowards and poseur fauxgressives is a move in the direction of literally getting us all killed.<p>edit: Also possible that they are just thoughtlessly responding to some clueless complaints, but the failed to even call out even who made the complaints. Nevertheless, this still literally carries water for Xi and Putin.