I can assure you the one writing the "critique" is a western leftist.
Take, for example, his near-mantra that the Nazi war of extermination against the USSR was actually a colonial war. He repeats this throughout the book, giving the impression that fascism was created not to defend capital against socialism, but rather as a way of rescuing and perpetuating colonialism in a time where it was under threat. This is not the analysis of the communist movement historically.
Nazi Germany intentions with eastern europe were indeed to settle the region, or to "germanize" it, this is clearly stated by Hitler himself in Mein Kampf, what does the author mean by "analysis of the communist movement historically"? He complains Losurdo is not explicit enough but he does the same here.
In Class Struggle, Losurdo explains how capitalist nations have historically pursued settlerism as a way to quench the dissent of their working class, effectively seducing them by promising them land abroad, this is social imperialism.
US hegemony runs of military might and financial might, not soft power ffs. There is a reason to the thousands of US military bases all around the world yk.
There are hundreds of explanations, from crushing armed resistance to prevent other movements from arising, to showing military might so other nations don't get any ideas, to being a bandaid to the property crisis in the West, to further increase MIC sales, to just being a blunder, etc...
it should be fairly obvious to everyone by now. Israel is an extension of the US, their unsinkable aircraft carrier in the middle east, or as Biden put it "if israel didn't exists, we would have to invent it to protect our interests in the region."
also it's fairly obvious that the "rules based order" is nothing more than a "might makes right order" enforced by the US.
Fusarium is a really common fungus in America, anyone that works in agriculture knows this. Clear example of mainstream media intentionally spreading a narrative to the ignorant population to cause sinophobia and fear. There are already millions of hectares infected by this fungus, for literally centuries.
I wonder what kind of acrobatics occupied Korea has to go through in their national history books.