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(state capitalist and only communist in name)

I would read an English translation of "On the Governance of China" as well as this https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

Even Lenin acknowledged that you can't get rid of capitalism quickly, and China started from an even worse position than the USSR.

Empires competing and creating multipolarity benefits China, other socialist nations, and the imperial periphery looking to break free. Keep in mind that mao's three worlds theory is a major influence on some socialist factions in China, even if it is reductionist. Russia maintaining strength to challenge the US(including if it comes through a defeat or truce in ukraine)(note that China is pushing for a truce which would maintain Russia's ability to defend itself from NATO better, but supplying them to maintain their strength) is a good thing in their calculus, and I haven't seen any compelling rebuttals to it.

The USSR famously subsidized and gave autonomy to the non Russian SSRs. Russofication was obviously a problem but much less of a problem than during the monarchy or the post union capitalist state. There is a reason why the non Russian SSRs voted at higher rates than the Russian SSR to stay in the USSR during the referendum before the illegitimate dissolution of the soviet union.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1920/11/13.htm

China famously exempted all ethnic minorities from the one child policy.

Socialism can work, Cuba has better life expectancy and more rights for women and lgbtq people than the US. Vietnam, Laos, and China all are moving forward gradually toward complete worker ownership of the means of production. The dprk has survived a 70 year siege from the global hegemon after it destroyed all their infrastructure and killed 20 percent of its civilian population.

Police reform has like a century of the same rhetoric without actually fixing the problem. You can read about it in old archives, and sounds hauntingly familiar to what you'd read from a modern reformist who opposes abolition

Except I am anarcho-syndicalist and aggressively socially left-wing

If youre still specifying social and economic policy as seperate in this context than you've still got a lot more reading and political development to do as a leftist.

But I will never understand anyone that holds China or Russia in anything approaching high regard.

The soviet union defeated the Nazis, and China is defeating the US primarily through peaceful means Both massively improved quality of life and political rights. If those aren't things to be conditionally admirable about as a leftist than you seem a very strange leftist.

Edit: And, no. My comment didn’t come across as that. You obviously just wanted to read it as such.

Please explain how "reading socialist comments gives me diarrhia" should be taken.

I know the implication here is that "maoist lemmygrad tankies" are so gross they give you diarrhea but it really comes off as "I get stress diarrhia reading left wing content online" which isn't very flattering.

Given that NATO is providing arms for Ukraine and NATO can't make its weapons without China it does seem fair to also provide components to Russia.

Third, it has a broader stated policy of respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty.

It can't do this without embargoing US weapons manufacturers, but that would be catastrophic so it makes sense that it is providing everyone instead of just the US.

Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, China, are all socialist projects that have succeeded to some extent. Most of them have pretty concrete plans to fully sieze the means of production by 2050 or so.

Russia is a partially neoliberal bourgeois democracy(aka dictatorship of the bourgeoisie) they do stuff like invade Ukraine/Iraq/Afghanistan while being distinct enough from fascism that it is more accurate to just call them neolibs

Hmm, why do these fascist anti-communist regimes that the US propped up hate Lenin?

Why would they do differently? Ignoring any moral arguments, Russia occupying NATO makes NATO or US aggression against China less likely to happen.