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Sympathize in what way? In national/ideological way "their cause is just" or in professional wargamer nerd way "their defense is credible"?
If the latter, Russian defense is not very credible excepting nuclear deterrence and the less to say about Venezuela/Iran/Cuba, the better. China might have a credible case.
I mean it in both ways.
You will find plenty of people who have operated US/allied military equipment and so you will have much more credible discussions about that equipment because the posters are have 1st hand knowledge. There are not posters with first hand knowledge of operating Russian drones, or first hand knowledge of Iranian procurement procedures, or first hand knowledge of how Chinese politicians order around the military establishment, or first hand knowledge of what it takes to get promoted in the IRGC. And so there's lots of unfounded speculation about these topics and any post about these topics needs to be taken with a very large grain of salt.
You will also find people celebrating when the Russian infantry gets thrown into the meat grinder and lamenting when the Ukrainian infantry gets thrown into the meat grinder.
Both of these biases is likely to lead to over-estimating US-aligned forces' capabilities.
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