... you say you "hadn't actually thought about that" ...

Now that you have, shouldn't the hypocrisy and mendacity of US and 'Western' media make you question even more? Perhaps you should question the veracity of that media concerning the Chinese, Russian and Iranian "actions"? Perhaps you've been misled there too? Perhaps it is the US and much of the 'West' that has the brainwashed population, terrorist states and essentially fascist systems?

Perhaps, the US empire and the 'West' were the 'baddies' all along?