Completely underplayed in a previous post on Ukraine was a statement by US policy makers of a suppressive purpose that has influenced US international relations for the past 75 years.
US imperial planner, George Kennan, an architect of the first cold war, wrote in 1948, “Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security.”
Instead of using its power to lift the survival potential of the population in other countries up to the level of the US, the stated aim was to maintain the disparity, to keep others down.
No wonder some regard the powers behind the US government as the principle terrorist organisation on the planet!
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v01p2/d4