Im imagining tons of people cheering for it because it’s bad for the U.S. and good for one of their victims despite the fact that it is literally a form of rent seeking

(Quoting you, emphasis added)

Maybe more reading may help.

Poverty of Philosophy (an attack on Proudhonism; 99% of western leftists including a lot of self-claimed Marxists are guilty of)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/

Best of luck