Uh...when does Russia have the right to invade their neighbor if they don't like who takes control of that country????
This is what Superpowers do. When Iran's wildly popular, Democratically elected Mosaddegh refused to "play ball" with Western energy needs (choosing instead to use oil resources to benefit his own country), the USA teamed with Britain to remove him, replacing him with the brutal Shaw, who gave us the lion's share of their oil contracts (until the 1979 revolution). FYI: the quickest way for a Superpower to cause rebellion (see homegrown terror networks like Hezbollah) is to forcibly intervene in a nation's destiny and replace a well liked leader with an animal. Rather than lie about it (and raise a generation of republican voters who don't understand geopolitics) we should demand that our news outlets teach real history. We need to ask why 90% of Talk Radio Republicans don't know that Reagan removed Hussein's Iraq from the official list of terrorist nations so that he could pour weapons and money into their regime. If Rush Limbaugh & FOX News aren't educating you about history, why give them your brain?
It's time for us to grow-up (and man-up) and realize that Superpowers accumulate global assets by a number of different means. Sometimes they do so by supporting violent coups (research the number of rebel factions Reagan supported across different continents); other times Superpowers impose their will through the application of financial pressure. For instance, the USA under Reagan captured the resources of many strategic 3rd world nations by finding a corruptible dictator inside a given nation who agreed to receive a massive "Structural Improvement" loan only to default on it, thus putting the country in technical receivership so that the lion's share of its resources could go to the large corporations that own Washington.
We live in a country that has less than 5% of the world's population but consumes over 25% of its resources. You don't achieve this kind of imbalance without the exercise of muscle; indeed, you don't bend and shape regions filled with Husseins or Pinochets through the application of rational market principals.
At some point, we need to understand that Superpowers don't rule a dangerous world with feel-good bumper stickers like "Freedom is on the march". Geopolitics is a contact sport and big nations like the USA sometimes have to forcibly control other regions and spill innocent blood to achieve their goals. Life is unfair. Man up. Own it.