When accessing the potential danger of a new technology, for a large number of ordinary people in a lot of places around the world the chances of it being misused by the US against them is as likely as it being misused by Russia or China against them, and so lumping those three together is not unreasonable.
Hitler was a real person who existed, and there are some lessons to be learned from that time in history, but invoking Godwin's law is frowned upon because even the mention of his name tends to shut people's brains down. The same principle generalizes to any highly polarized name.
Scott Aaronson could learn something from Scott Alexander on this one. ;)
> Trump has told us openly, over and over, that he’d do the same if he could (e.g., jail his political opponents). It’s only our system of checks and balances, or what’s left of it, that’s prevented him.