"Does that satisfy, or are you just going to endlessly move the goalposts?"

don't do this. do you want to de-escalate or not? stay on topic.

is it satisfactory? not really, but i don't expect you to dump a treatise on a chat board.

i want particular looks into political persecutions in these states, cults of personalities, corruption and abuse of powers, imbalanced relationships between Russia and other USSR states, treatment of Uyghurs, China's social cred system, these kinds of items.

i do NOT expect you to address any of these items here, and i'm not asking you to.

you will say that my views are tainted by biased capitalist propaganda. if that's true, where would you suggest i go to get information on these topics? mind you, i will look very askance at anything that is coming from a socialist echo chamber, since they will also have their own biases.

re: authoritarianism

i hear what you're saying. good thoughts.

re: critique

yes, this is much better. deeper, more nuanced.