That almost worked. But…no. How many of those “invasions” have been legal actions under a UN mandate or as a result of an international agreement such as NATO? How many times has the US acted in response to allied requests for assitance?

Yes, legal under the US influenced UN, or US controlled NATO… how about using that to say the Soviets had a clean sheet of paper… their invasions were all legal under either UN or Warsaw Pact rules? Since when did NATO become an international organisation able to legitimise attacks on soverign nations?
If the Soviets wanted to conquer Eastern Europe it could easily have dissolved borders and displaced locals and Sovietised every country. Look at a map of Europe from just before WWI… how many countries do you recognise? Why didn’t they rewrite it again if they were merely after territory.

Regarding the US, they started late in the Imperial game but they certainly started…