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.
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.