Now heres the dichotomy.
These are the very people that have their fingers on the nuclear trigger. They are presumably prepared to visit Armageddon on all living things. To annihilate every man women and child, to extinguish life in the most appalling manner. They send their armies to foreign lands in an attempt to enforce their values , endangering the lives of their own warriors and all those they come into conflict with. Is this in the defence of their own realms, no this is an extension of foreign policy by other means.