The irony with your attempted point about accountability: Netherlands Antilles also didn't resource to win the Cold War before about-facing and simping for Putin.
Americans "give a crap", but sometimes about the wrong things. Tell Ohio I said "lol".
I once visited Belarus, then I visited Hawaii. There was so much poverty in Belarus, but not in Hawaii.
I always wondered why this European country was so poor and in shambles, and the U.S. state was not. I guess it's the "give a crap" attitude in Europe. Obviously Europeans don't have it, and Americans do.