Thanks Rask. These couple of paragraphs caught my eye:

Grayzone has dutifully whitewashed the bombing campaigns and war crimes of Assad and Putin operating as a kind of reverse Fox News meets Qanon/Infowars level conspiracy theory outlet in the service of what Leila al Shami called “the anti-imperialism of idiots.” [6] Grayzone share Parenti’s justified frustration with the Democrats but also his increasing willingness to reach out for far right ideology and allies. Both Grayzone and Parenti continue to frame their increasingly reactionary politics with Leftist rhetoric.

Parenti published through campist Grayzone because he too is a tankie. In his 2012 article “But Did The Lights Stay On?” [7] he outlines, in measured academic language, the ways in which the Soviet Union hesitatingly intervened in Afghanistan. While he admits there were some national security concerns, he paints a picture of the Soviet presence promoting human rights, women’s liberation from rural patriarchal oppression, and modernization in the face of feudalism. His tone reads a lot like a US State Department overview of any conflict that needs justification, but for the Soviet side. You have to read the whole article to be sure Parenti comes down on the side of the Soviet invasion as a well intentioned but doomed attempt at liberating, democratizing, and modernizing Afghanistan only to see it fall into barbarism. In the end Parenti subscribes to a “Tankieism or Barbarism” state socialist view.

Do you really think this is a legit analysis?