You don't need to do this, actually. Nobody needs you to lie for the regime, to invent a charitable reading of their actions.
How is it a lie? It’s a plausible story to be sure and you certainly haven’t given us any reason to think that a different story is more likely than this one
what do you think "steel-man" means, if not inventing a charitable reading of the regime's crimes?
How is it a lie? It’s a plausible story to be sure and you certainly haven’t given us any reason to think that a different story is more likely than this one