Benign? Native American genocide, the transatlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, segregation, Japanese interment, suplying drug cartels with weapons and money, the havoc that's caused in virtually every Central and South American country, the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons against a foe (twice, and against civilian population centers no less), Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, all the CIA-backed coups and regime changes, becoming the world's arms dealer, economic imperialism and almost starting World War Three (the Cuban Missile Crisis should really be called the Turkey Missile Crisis).

We also end up consistently on the wrong side: apartheid South Africa, Pinochet's Chile, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the list goes on.

Russia? We enabled the looting of Russia after the collapse of the USSR that directly created Vladimir Putin.

North Korea? This continues a long trend of simply starving countries for the hell of it, just like Iraq [1], Venezuela and Cuba.

China? What's China done exactly? I'll tell you what: it singlehandedly lifted hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the 20th century. Remove China from the stats and poverty grew in the 20th century. China became an economic powerhouse while having a much fairer distribution of wealth than the US has had or currently has. And they continue to build infrastructure rather than minting a few more billionaires.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-m...