Selling nukes on the blackmarket, notoriously uncontroversial and unambiguously GOOD and COOL

Is there more context to this? Like this sounds ridiculous even for the USA. I assume then that he was seeding the articles or otherwise widely distributing them? Not that I think that’s worth a death penalty…

All the American liberals around me in my experience get uncomfortable if I so much as praise China’s rail infrastructure and seem to think that Uyghurs have been poured into the concrete or something.