Within the text they're the bad guys (even then, the automatons were kicked off their homeworld by the humans and the bugs are harvested for fuel, so the portrayal is still somewhat sympathetic). The enemies are comically evil subhumans not to imply enemies of "democracy" are bad, but rather to highlight the dehumanizing world view of the fascist west. The whole game is about mowing down "Russian bots" and "Chinese removed" after all.