re: #4 Political Atheist
This will likely be the only time I defend Destro, but what does the US Government do on Tibet and Uyghurstan? Nothing really. Certainly many US citizens do activism over these areas, but the Government largely ignores it.
The US has lost its way in the Cold War. Instead of doing the ideological fight over Human Rights, we did it over economic systems and money, very rarely giving a damn about Human Rights. This is evident under Nixon and Reagan especially.
Hell, the US Treasury contributed to the Breakup of Yugoslavia because they felt reticent to aid a nation that would remain heavily socialized. Treasury at the time held more sway than State, even though they were very tin-eared over the possible consequences. This, of course, led to the Bosnian War, where a Bosnia trapped between two effectively fascist states (something close to Strasserism in both cases.) And the Bosnians suffered massively for being a stunningly poor place geographically.
However, Human Rights wise, we are better than Russia. Gay Rights for one. And as a Muslim, I feel safer here than I would in Russia. Not to mention corruption that makes ours look small, and assassination of journalists. But we are a far stretch from Scandinavia.