I think you are onto something here. Most people grown in the better parts of the world really don't understand how much hard is life in the poorest corners, how much human rights + moral views are completely absent from the education and life experiences of some of the most powerful people in the world, just a few decades later after being that kid, that girl who grown in the living hells that are many parts of the worlds today.
These people are hardly different from Ghenghis Khan or have a different approach to conflicts if they have the upper hand with any advantage at their hand. So, many "western" "human" ways to engage and solve problems are for them, in fact, chances to get away with their objectives.
This is the world as it really is, not the world as we would like it to be.
That's the people you're gonna face with maybe a gun and few spare magazines, but the technology is nothing, they have the upper hand: no morals, no human rights to respect. They just have to win a game respecting no rules at all, those which you'd have to respect.
These people are hardly different from Ghenghis Khan or have a different approach to conflicts if they have the upper hand with any advantage at their hand. So, many "western" "human" ways to engage and solve problems are for them, in fact, chances to get away with their objectives.
This is the world as it really is, not the world as we would like it to be.
That's the people you're gonna face with maybe a gun and few spare magazines, but the technology is nothing, they have the upper hand: no morals, no human rights to respect. They just have to win a game respecting no rules at all, those which you'd have to respect.