Western high morals are covers for international realpolitik
Sometimes, it happens that the West gets involved in wars. Chiefly, USA and States part of EU intervene in some conflicts (or even cause the escalations in first place, most notoriously in Iraq, 2003). The West even handpicks which wars are worthy of attention (through mass media) and of military intervention, and which not. In fact, States in the West acts on the basis of (supposed) higher morals, as the keepers of justice and the watchers over human rights in the world. Throughout history we built our apparent moral superiority An alliance was the pragmatic thing to do, and also sold as the moral one. But give it a few years and an Iron Curtain... This attitude was largely built over the last decades, first inheriting the system of values that permeated the Second World War. While fighting fascism in various forms during the War, it was 'easy' and of course convenient to label the Axis Powers as evil and the Allies as good . While not unjustified -