It is inherently authoritarian to think you can “liberate” another country on your terms without regard for the ordinary folk there. This is what America gets wrong time and time again. America may (and may is doing a lot of heavy lifting here) be a democracy but it’s foreign policy track record shows that it doesn’t actually care to support democracy around the world. It cares to support its national interests and that’s all. The rest is blowing hot air and virtue signalling.