every argument in favor of letting China conquer Taiwan is also an argument for letting Britain reconquer Ireland. it's just if the British were to threaten that we would recognize it as psychotically unacceptable.
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Also, some extremely simplified explanatory reading material for the bystanders:https://redsails.org/tankies/
'Tankie' literally calls to defenses of the USSR's use of force to crush opposition in Hungary and the (modern) Czech Republic. It's as if there were people on twitter calling themselves "Anschlussies" but claiming that the only did it because they liked Hitler's vegetarianism.
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Yes, that's the definition. In a life-and-death struggle against the USA, of course the Soviet Union was going to use any means necessary to maintain its position against the intended erosion and dismantling that western powers pushed for. Were they supposed to just do nothing?
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What about establishing a free society that wasn't instantly repudiated by all of their oppressed colonial people (let's be honest about what the USSR was here) the moment the Soviet boot was removed from their necks?
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