But obviously the US is responsible for the collapse of any socialist regime ever, because there is no way enlightened socialist leaders could fail to account for the needs of the people. Socialism guarantees freedom and prosperity! Only reactionary late-stage capitalism in the midst of collapse could break the peoples' revolutionary republics!

As the Fallout games remind us, "war never changes." But we don't have to play that game. We don't have to join the chorus of ex post facto justifications for mass murder, demonize peoples because of their rulers, or cheer sending our enslaved to fight theirs.