This interview demonstrates how to respond to many of the Western talking points, and has a lot of info you could potentially use https://www.pambazuka.org/Iran-vs-US-Imperialism

Venezuela: Kittens are starving in Venezuela due to economic mismanagement of the communist regime

This article goes over some of the history of the Baltic states: ‘The Baltic Roots of Russophobia: Neoliberalism, revisionism and U.S. imperialism’ https://mronline.org/2025/12/24/the-baltic-roots-of-russophobia-neoliberalism-revisionism-and-u-s-imperialism/

Samir Amin’s essay on Contemporary Imperialism: https://monthlyreview.org/articles/contemporary-imperialism/

And chapter 17 ‘Imperialism’ of Sweezy’s book Theory of Capitalist Development: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461479/page/n313/mode/2up

Paul Sweezy’s Theory of Capitalist Development, in particular chapter 17 ‘Imperialism’, though the whole book is very good. Internet Archive link to the book: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461479/page/n313/mode/2up