You could voice a similar skepticism about the moral virtue of Saddam Hussein while still acknowledging that Iraq was immeasureably better off under his leadership than it was under the conditions the US led coalition created. The point of the post is that the conditions they are complaining about were created by (in part) the people complaining about it.
I think there's an argument to be made that leaders in the global south who are powerful enough to pursue an independent policy without caring that much about US and western interests incidentally create better conditions domestically because they don't sell their entire country's fate to global capitalism. I'm not sure what loudly denouncing a dead man accomplishes if you're going to to acknowledge that the conditions we created are manifestly causing the problem.
You could voice a similar skepticism about the moral virtue of Saddam Hussein while still acknowledging that Iraq was immeasureably better off under his leadership than it was under the conditions the US led coalition created. The point of the post is that the conditions they are complaining about were created by (in part) the people complaining about it.
I think there's an argument to be made that leaders in the global south who are powerful enough to pursue an independent policy without caring that much about US and western interests incidentally create better conditions domestically because they don't sell their entire country's fate to global capitalism. I'm not sure what loudly denouncing a dead man accomplishes if you're going to to acknowledge that the conditions we created are manifestly causing the problem.