Considering how the US abused Russian good will - and weakness! - in the Yeltzin years, I would say that the US has lost the right to ride the moral high horse. When it comes boosting its foreign political goals, it is not one bit better or less unscrupulous than Moscow or Kiew.
Politics knows no morals. Only the mechanisms of power. Machiavelli was the first to see and describe that uncomproised, and with precisoion that is still mactual today. He described the ways the game is being played - He did not assess the morality of this or that method. This fine difference is that gets often misunderstood.
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