Almost all of the proposals in your comment seem authoritarian to me. I think at this point we should have learned that deploying totalitarianism to fight a reg

Almost all of the proposals in your comment seem authoritarian to me. I think at this point we should have learned that deploying totalitarianism to fight a regime the West doesn't like both doesn't work and, to use your words, is "self-evidently categorically bad". Dreaming of some mind-controlling bioweapon to change the minds of politicians we don't like seems particularly dystopian to me. If this technology existed, you can guarantee it will be deployed in your country, wherever that is.