> You are playing the generic tangent game here

Nope. I'm calling out evil where it resides.

> US (& even its allies) have been portrayed to be welcoming

Balance of power. If you're Canada, right now, balancing America with Chinese power is favourable.

> These inaccurate vibes promulgated by leftleaning "elite humanist" media

The media environment is almost orthogonal to military and geopolitcal decisionmaking. (For folks who only consume ad-supported media, sure–the line may be impossible to delinate. If you have any decisionmaking authority in these areas, you or someone else is paying for you to have better information than TikTok or whatever.)