Well I’d wager that’s because the people who make such arguments generally aren’t actual moralists. I assess them to be more closed authoritarians who all but openly fetishize strongmen. Despite what they say, their complain isn’t so much with America’s moral sins, but that they feel that they themselves / their lives are not being constantly and visibly empowered by the spoils of those sins.

This is why Putinist warmaking and Xi’s Neo-Maoist aggression are not criticized, because actually this is what they admire. Their true ire is that they feel America is not actively / effectively subjugating “lesser peoples” enough - either at home or abroad - in a way that massages their own fragile superiority complexes…

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