Well, Stalin is credited with the remark "Kill one man, and it's murder; kill a million men, and it's a statistic." This theme has been widely developed; see TV Tropes (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AMillionIsAStatistic). For him, that was simply the way humans act, from the family to the seminary to the gang to the Russian Revolution. The modern State, with its assumption that some people are somehow better than others and have a right to rule those others, is the ideal vehicle for such behavior, such desires. Hence, applying moral arguments to a state, and especially to a Great Power, is a waste of time. Morality is possible only to humans in very small groups, maybe groups of one. Applying morality to a state, a political party, a corporation, is a category error. The only thing to do is to leave the room, if possible.
Kill one man you are a murderer. Kill thousands for your country, they give you a medal.
The tombstone of a Vietnam veteran who was dismissed for homosexual activity:
"They gave me a medal for killing three men. They gave me a dishonorable discharge for loving one man."
Well, Stalin is credited with the remark "Kill one man, and it's murder; kill a million men, and it's a statistic." This theme has been widely developed; see TV Tropes (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AMillionIsAStatistic). For him, that was simply the way humans act, from the family to the seminary to the gang to the Russian Revolution. The modern State, with its assumption that some people are somehow better than others and have a right to rule those others, is the ideal vehicle for such behavior, such desires. Hence, applying moral arguments to a state, and especially to a Great Power, is a waste of time. Morality is possible only to humans in very small groups, maybe groups of one. Applying morality to a state, a political party, a corporation, is a category error. The only thing to do is to leave the room, if possible.