Yup and America draws a ton of hostility specifically because we do all of the above since WWII. Liberalism is an active relic of foreign enemy Cold War tactics to curb global expansion of the American Empire.

We effectively held influence and capable military presence around the entire world less than a generation after every other world power lost large fractions of their population and infrastructure. The only tactics left were political intrigue, subterfuge, cultural poisoning, appearing threatening (nukes, space race, military proximity), and structural infiltration. Everyone else allied, appeased, got invaded, or sanctioned.

Every time we the people have tried to reign in this military industrial complex it only seems to follow with generations of it getting worse. I think when the USSR fell so did the Russia connections, and it left a vacuum for China and others to fill. Procedural technicalities that can be abused but were never addressed because they’ve been abused since inception. Like the fucking CIA.