Under-appreciative of the US government's tactics? It's informative to go back and read John Perkins' two "Economic Hit Man" books. One sentence in the Introduction to the (2016) second book pretty much summarizes it: "I'm haunted by the payoffs to the leaders of poor countries, the blackmail, and the threats that if they resisted, if they refused to accept loans that would enslave their countries in debt, the CIA's jackals would overthrow or assassinate them." This isn't speculation, but rather the front-line report of a participant in these horrors.

Whatever the complicity of other countries might be, whatever the crimes of other empires, the US empire has disseminated this "strategy" (criminal enterprise) throughout the world, enriching oligarchs and killing scores of poor people, often by starving them to death. That beacon of freedom and democracy, the USA actually offers the quintessential model for inter-nation economic violence and sociopathy.