Tankie here, basically most of us are pro russia not because we like russia, but because a multi-polar world with many different types of influence is better than a singular polar world because wedon't want one bloc or alliace to have too much influence over the world, brics alliance makes one pole, and the nato/allies make another. Another thing is I personally believe even if Ukraine won the war, they a culturally, economically, and politcally fucked because of the war, not to mention the azov battalion. As for the refusing the wrong doings of authoritarians, i actually believe we acknowledge what is proven, but most of us don't trust a lot of u.s. media. I am fairly new to the community so i probably don't speak for all of them but we acknowledge some of the bad things that was done, for example Stalin's role in zionism and the creation of isnotreal. But we also acknowledge the u.s. has done far worse in a lot of cases, for example weaponizing the dollar.
Wdym? the company who owns the mine is owned by a chinese company lol. Thacker Pass Lithium Mine - Wikipedia Lithium Nevada, LLC - a wholly owned subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp, whose largest shareholder is the world's largest lithium mining company, Chinese Ganfeng Lithium.