The funny thing is I do believe, in their own misguided way, that they do think they really are “doing good.”
That’s the difference between conservatives and liberals - good intentioned liberals act on the way the world should ideally work, and conservatives, accepting the weaknesses of man, operate based on the way the world really works. You’re not going to change mankind’s weaknesses and the pitfalls of the lowest common denominator morality.
Sorry—anyone who just takes a country off the map without warning cannot be seen by any rational person as doing good.