Critical support doesn’t mean we should go join Russia as mercenaries and spend all our days being obnoxious on their behalf like some “MLs” do. What is means is that we recognize the role Russia and China are playing in challenging unipolar dominance and try to be pragmatic, using whatever progressive force to our advantage. In the west there isn’t that much we can do towards revolution besides try to plant seeds in the intelligent and oppressed people around us. What we can do even better in the interests of the international oppressed is to support groups fighting imperialist hegemony. That means Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and so on solidarity. Who is helping these countries the most at the moment? Progressive but non-socialist countries like Iran and Russia. Russia intervened on behalf of the anti-colonial socdems of both Venezuela and Syria. All these countries are building the foundations global economy that doesn’t rely on the west. That is why we must critically support them. Revolutions happen at the weakest chains of imperialism, so we should weaken all the chains we can.