Every empire is expansionist, hence colonial. Not just the Western ones. China is colonizing Africa and parts of Asia. Russia has colonized the entirety of Siberia. Even Iran would like to expand if it could. Waging a war against an empire can be OK, even if it is fought by another empire. Fighting Nazis in WW2 was OK. Kuwait intervention was OK. Intervention in the Yugoslavian civil war was OK. Helping Ukraine against Ruzzia is OK. Mostly because they didn’t provide the USA (and “the West”) with imperial benefits, at least not that was plannable. And the people of the European and Pacific theatres , Kuwait, former Yugoslavia, and Ukraine got (or would get) a better life out of the interventions. As opposed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The problem with those wars were that they were fought for the wrong reasons, mostly greed. It smelled from the start, given that 9/11 was obviously a Saudi plot to destabilize the West, which has been a tremendous success since. Had the USA occupied Saudi Arabia, removed the royal family, put the oil fields under UN control, and made serious efforts, not just half-assed ones, to mend the rift between Islam and the West, e.g. by ensuring that Mecca and the pilgrimage remains unaffected, that would have been a war I would have supported. Had Al Gore’s presidency not been stolen, there was a chance that the USA had gone this way, instead of the money grabbing Afghan and Iraqi wars that the MIC convinced Dubya to do.
Point is, oppose or support wars based on their premise and goals, not by who is fighting them. I am yet to see a war fought by Ruzzia that was for the good of anyone but the Ruzzian elite. China hasn’t fought wars recently, but their expansion in the Third World is as cruel as the 19th century Western colonialism was.
Uyghur slave labor camps say hi.