Let trade run free. Tie your currency to the U.S. dollar. Align your foreign policy with America’s. The U.S. and its Western partners wrote these economic rules, a cornerstone of the world order prevailing since World War II.
Iran was quite progressive before the US intervened to secure oil.
Syria had a strong left wing separatist movement before the US intervened and repeatedly betrayed them.
The extremist right theocrats in Afghanistan were kept safe during the war and reinstated (but the moderates and extremist left wing are dead).
Ethiopia, Sudan same story.
The Saudi Arabian and Israeli theocrats are allies of the west. The west supports the genocide Israel's ultra-conservative government is performing.
Niger has been destabilized by france for decades to keep them from controlling their energy resources. Just because what russia is going to do is worse, doesn't mean the existing corruption (and thus the ability for russia to trigger the coup) wasn't the direct result of western imperialism.
It is publicly stated policy of the fascist evangelicals in the US to spread homophobia and hate via "charities".
At every turn, anyone outside the imperial core with resources has the most corrupt and theocratic element assisted by the west. The US brings the opposite of democracy or progressivism, and there are many countries in europe that are just as bad.
And that's not to mention the growing fascist movements in the UK and Italy who would love to go back to stoning women.