I’ve read this opinion on here and other leftist places several times, and it’s gotten to the point where I’m absolutely confounded about whether people even understand geopolitics and know history. Truly weird take that would suggest hidden prejudices and having complete blinders on what is happening in the world.
I guess it's easy to just go "shitty neolib in power? probably a vassal state" but that turns out to be a really bad heuristic and really misses the point