Arguably some self-serving motivations can be good. Again, look at Japan and West Germany. It was very self-serving for the US/West, but in a good way: they wan

Arguably some self-serving motivations can be good. Again, look at Japan and West Germany. It was very self-serving for the US/West, but in a good way: they wanted strong states as allies, so they made sure to fund, protect, and rebuild those societies, even though they had recently finished an extremely terrible war with those countries. This is different from the blatant colonialism/exploitation that was more typical in earlier decades and centuries.