alt Hacker NewsI agree with your condemnation of this and other conflicts, but disagree that this is in any way new or worse than any purported golden age.
One month after the Berlin Wall fell the US invaded Panama to kidnap its leader so he could stand trial in the US on drug trafficking charges [1], an almost identical situation to this one.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...
Isolating similar events doesn't negate what the OP says.
There's a wider picture involved here which has more global leaders helping to paint that picture with blood and darkness.