We&#x27;re different. Part of American foreign policy is that &quot;truth is the best propaganda&quot; not the only propaganda, mind you, but the best.<p>The West also does have a policy of expanding liberal democracies and integrating them into a world trade frame work. Cases where we don&#x27;t follow this policy is in areas where we&#x27;re afraid of a counter weight emerging.<p>For example, the Middle Eastern policy is one where we foster instability to keep the Arab &#x2F; Muslim world from unifying. Yes of course the war in Iraq is a travesty, but in America and the West in general we know when we get into tragic wars. To the point where even Jeb Bush has admitted that the war was a mistake.<p>The Russian mindset is different. It&#x27;s more... brutal? I&#x27;m struggling for the right word. But if you look at Russian war doctrine during the cold war and (especially) World War 2, you see this apparatus that is 100% ok with using logic that ends with millions of suffering countrymen. Where propaganda and killing political opponents is acceptable. Where sending a man into space even though your scientists tell you he won&#x27;t make it back alive.<p>The West doesn&#x27;t stand for this. We have our (sometimes blatant) propaganda like the rest of them, and we make mistakes, but our jails cells look nothing like those in most of the rest of the world and our press isn&#x27;t nearly as controlled.