People don't like occupation, ethnic cleansing, or authoritarianism. Its easy for Americans, part of a settler project that broke off from a larger empire due to representative control of parliament, to support a state like Taiwan. Marx's writings on Russia speak for itself.
I don't understand ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ณ "leftists"
Like how did you come to this position?