Those things are inevitable in the real world...
People can earn respect of others without intimidation or fear...
Countries cannot.....That’s just the way things are...always have been and will remain so...
War and torture create fear but destroy respect.
In the post WW2 era the US was most respected with Reagan in office, and the sum total of his warmaking was a takeover of a small Caribbean island and a retaliatory strike against Qadafi for the Lockerbie attack.