I'm not sure where this bizarre revision of history comes from. The "West", dominated by the US for the past century, has installed plenty of brutal dictators and military regimes, mostly when countries ignored the US to go left, not right.
See Iran, Syria, a good fraction of Latin America including Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, along with Korea and Vietnam.
Western governments, including Reagan, Nixon, and Thatcher ignored and even actively supported SA's apartheid government for decades.
See Iran, Syria, a good fraction of Latin America including Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, along with Korea and Vietnam.
Western governments, including Reagan, Nixon, and Thatcher ignored and even actively supported SA's apartheid government for decades.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Baby_Option