tankies just cannot hold in their minds that two rival things can both be bad at the same time.

western countries have done bad things, therefore let’s treat anyone anti-west - putin, al-assad, xi, kim, milosevic etc - as innocent heroic saviors, is how they think.

they have a very small set of inviolable axioms which lead to an absurdly simple and shallow “goodies and baddies” view of the world and history.