How does this not sound chauvinistic to you?

(This is referring to the first paragraph, not the second. I’m convinced on Belarus - if the protesters want to sell off state-owned assets to oligarchs then they’re bad)

Please don’t take this the wrong way, as it is genuinely a good-faith question. If the government of a country aligned against the US is genuinely bad (take Iran for instance – they hang gay people for being gay), how can the people of that country fight against ossified, entrenched power systems to make life better in that country without being accused of being an op?

To pre-emptively answer your question, I support Maduro’s Venezuela and recognize the Bolivia coup for the Western-backed power grab that it was. I’m not that type of rube.

Why should we be supporting the Belarusian government again? Isn’t Lukashenko just Belarusian Yeltsin with more Soviet symbolism?