So, in a paean to willful ahistorical ignorance, let's just erase the meaning of the evidence when it demolishes your argument.

Serbia was committing genocide in Kosovo and Bosnia and NATO stopped it in 1999 and 1995. I was living in Milan in 1991 when the Serbian ("Yugoslav") military was shooting over the border in Gorizia to stop Slovenian independence.

Okinawa: Opposition is local, not from the Tokyo government which colonized Okinawa starting in 1894: "(from The Guardian)

"the chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, said the government aimed to reduce the island’s burden, but insisted that there was no alternative to building a new base in Henoko." Facts are stubborn things.

Iran: the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup led by Kermit Roosevelt that reinstalled the Shah was indefensible. The current misogynist Islamist theocracy that replaced the Shah is just as indefensible. And the vast majority of the Iranian people living in that regime's prison know it.

Vietnam: They've known since 1979 that Uncle Sam is their best defense against an expansionist China.

Korea: So you prefer the murderous neo-Stalinist monarchy and family business to the democratic and prosperous South Korea? Really?

And the Taliban to what preceded its rule? And Gaddafi to what came afterwards? And the Assad family business to its opponents? Read Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East to take the cure for the reflexive blame the West for all disasters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Went_Wrong%3F).

Russia is not the USSR, but Putin and his media mouthpieces certainly want to rebuild the old Soviet empire: From Russian state TV, quoted in Newsweek:

“Henry Sardaryan, Dean at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) says that the former territories of the Russian empire and of the Soviet Union are “Russia’s territories” that Moscow should unilaterally control,” Davis wrote in a caption. Referring to the ex-Soviet states, Sardaryan told his fellow guests on Russian state TV: “This is our land, our territory of strategic interests.” “Everything that used to be part of the Russian empire and then part of the Soviet Union is the territory of Russia’s strategic interests,” the academic added. Let me remind you that our czars came to these lands several centuries ago,” said Sardaryan. “It wasn’t so that the U.S., Britain and Turkey could stick their nose in there, trying to provoke us or to force us to play by new rules, or creating new formats for dealing with them.” Without any compromises, we shouldn’t contend with anyone in these regions… There should be no other players for us to deal with. This is our territory.”

Here’s a sample of the nationalist paranoia that everyone in a morally decadent west is against a traditional values Russia, expressed by Lavrov, intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin, national security adviser Nikolai Patrushev and defense minister Sergei Shoigu:

“Ukraine’s leaders are as bad as Hitler….“Some kind of time machine is taking us back into the worst years of Hitler’s occupation,” Mr. Naryshkin said of Ukraine this month, describing its pro-Western government as a “true dictatorship.” He was opening an exhibit in Moscow titled “Human Rights Abuses in Ukraine.” Mr. Patrushev has described the “Russophobia” in Ukraine as the outgrowth of a Western propaganda campaign dating to jealous European scribes who besmirched Ivan the Terrible. “Father and mother are being renamed parent number one and two,” Mr. Patrushev said in a September interview, describing the West’s “foreign” values. “They want to give children the right to determine their own sex, and in some places they’ve gotten to the point of legalizing marriage with animals.”

They’re all clearly still in the anger stage of the five stages of grief:

“They are essentially the last gasp of Soviet elites, the people who didn’t just have their early childhood education in the Soviet times, but also their early career experiences. They were made. They thought they knew the way their life was going to be. And then all of a sudden the whole thing collapsed.”