Precisely. To those in power now, there are no laws worth respecting, no values worth dying for, there are only "political objectives worth pursuing".
I recall recently reading that one unnamed US politician, who was quoted as saying re the Balkans, "We don't choose objectives according to our friends, we choose friends according to our objectives".
If an individual rather than a country conducted themselves this way, what real "friends" would you expect them to have?
He’d have friends who hate him for his freedom.