Like, I wake up and see my flowers. Some bees. It’s a nice sunrise. I open the news and it’s just one big collapse of the west. Fascism is rapidly coming up. I’m in the middle of it but I still need to go to work to keep the make believe that is our society going. War might be imminent. Whether that’s with Russia or the US.
And yet here we are, collectively pretending everything is fine.
I see. My understanding differs some, at least on some of these. As far as I know:
China is on a clear upswing in a socialist direction and the way they went global with the "reform and opening up " was to help build their productive forces quickly (not any kind of abandonment of principles derived from marxism). And they are now building mutually-beneficial ties in other countries, such as through Belt and Road, which also makes it harder for the western empire to isolate and encircle them.
Russia is capitalist as far as I know, but not imperialist. See argument on that here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Imperialism
South Korea, aka: Occupied Korea is sure something. I suggest listening to the Blowback podcast series of Episodes on Korea if you want historical context. It really puts into perspective how much of a brutal proxy state for the US “South Korea” is and how much Koreans have endured both from US occupation and Japanese occupation prior to that.
India I’m pretty ignorant on, but my impression is probably about the same as yours, that they are far from in good shape.
Middle East territories/regions/countries: Well let’s just say, the US-backed settler state “israel” there certainly does a lot of damage.