[Lightspeed]

Yeah, the West has really burnt up any moral authority it might have had. I mean, maybe it never had any in the first place, but I think immediately post WWII the rebuilding of Europe and Japan went a long way to building that up. The Soviets were happy to let their army rape Germany, until Western allies got them to put a stop to it.

But then I think about how the US bombed the hell out of fledgling Communist nations post WWII, so I don't really know.