I came to really dislike the notion of ‘critical support’ lately. It obscures the concrete questions of tactics in favour of team-politics. IMO, communists should be pursuing their own ends, and if some capitalist countries came to be fellow travelers, that’s good, but we shouldn’t forget that they are very unreliable and their goals are different from ours. Like European communists should oppose militarization and chauvinist propaganda, but shouldn’t actually be pushing for reconciliation with Russia, because then the Russian ruling class will be free to lurch right, while now they are forced to make concessions to the left and work with socialist countries. And we shouldn’t throw our limited resources into supporting Russian actions, because Russia has their own resources, and our goals are different anyway.