Maybe the dumbest statement you have ever made PD. "literally the last government on earth," unbeleivable......so we should fall in behind countries like Russia, China, NK, Saudi and a host of others? This is not an apples to apples comparison and that is where your belief is misguided. By virtue of sacrificing over 600k US soldiers (WWI, WWII & KOREA) we have absolutely earned the right to sit at a moral table way the hell higher then most if not every country on the planet. Do we have our warts? Does the government do amazingly stupid and unintuitive things? There is no doubt and I would never ever argue otherwise. BUT given our generosity and influence of freeing millions upon millions of people from tyranny we do what no one other country has done, we do have a moral high ground.
This is the same argument I always make when it comes to the War of Northern Aggression......to condemn so many without the benefit of living in that time, is just plain ignorant. After WWII, there was a very real threat of communist domination, so that the US gov't acted accordingly is no surprise. Hindsight tells us some of the ears were justified others weren't.
The American people, therefore to some degree the government are the most generous people on the earth. We don't fight wars to subjugate people nor consume territory, we don't sell slaves from conquered lands, our soldiers don't indiscriminately rape and pillage, our polices encourage restraint in combat (even to the detriment of individua soldiers safety) and once an area is surrender we shovel money and aid to the area. What other country does that?
The problem now and in the free worlds face is that you have no idea where the bolsheviks will stop, anyone with a nuke can now say "better sty out of our way of we'll start WWIII and any country that wants to be democratic but lies outside the treaty boundaries of something like NATO are screwed. Why would NATO not come to the aid of Ukraine, but devolve into a world war over Lithuania, a mush smaller and much less significant country then Ukraine?
Russia, a mass murdering regime for 100's of years, has absolutely no business dictating to countries what they can or cannot do. Same with China.
The US has more then enough chips on the table to sit in one of the chairs at the top of the moral ground table.