Yes, I know, they are in our turf so now we need to bitch about them. What is the famous quote?, ah yes, "as we need to protect our economic interests" ...
There's the proverb "sees a speck in another's eye, but does not notice a log in his own eye". No major country is innocent, yet dismissing them all as equally bad is wrong and unacceptable; they do allow comparison, and Western countries come much better for their record of wars over last decades than some others.
First doing their own is like asking to postpone space exploration until all problems on Earth will be solved. Not to mention that space exploration helps solving Earth problems; postponing flying to space can thus be indefinite, as on Earth you can almost always find problems. Western hemisphere only recently had a situation with no wars; you can then always point to smaller conflicts. West has to improve, yes; however that doesn't mean we shouldn't hold some non-Western countries as more accountable for bigger international problems.
Are you forgetting about jetting across the world to Iraq and Afghanistan on dubious pretences?
While I certainly don't condone (nor frankly know much about) Russia's involvement in Ukraine and Crimea, at least they share borders and have a large number of ethnic Russians there to be fighting over.
Number of Russians in neighboring Ukraine is a pretense. The real reason is so called "imperial phantom's pains", the worldview of the Russian power about how everything works, the Cold War era division into "them" and "us". They don't believe in the democracy, they never experienced that and were trained to be suspicious about it. For just about everybody - Russians on both sides of the border as well as Ukrainians - the conflict made things worse, and for a long time. Kremlin lives in a bad illusion, which it tries to induce into others.
I feel that each human nation as soon as they becomes a supper power they adopt behavior of a bully having bullies sense of justice e.g. "domination, violence and exploit".
Comparing a good technological achievement with moral and ethical values is not good analogy, but I understand what was your attempt. Speaking about the open space, i think that bully mindset is not really a behavior we want to carry with us. Do we really think that if other intelligent life (if it exist of course and is more intelligent) will let us?
Another issue is that space gives a military upper hand, meaning who ever deploys Moon base or Mars base will have ability to produce nukes or commence meteor strike on opponent country without much chance to defend themselves. So, in some sense something noble can be easily tuned to eval means. If China builds a moon base on the far side, we need to pair with moon base and spying satellites so we can track what are they doing, crating new military race, all the while mother planet is burning because of Global Warming as trillions are diverted - due to inability of nations to cooperate with each other.
Thus, I am trying to say, more technological power requires higher level of consciousness (goodness), otherwise we are just raging monkeys that will blow them selves up in one way or another.
IMO, problem here is you don't see it actually happening. Similarly Kremlin sees behavior of West with e.g. Kosovo as the same as what they did in Crimea. While West brings comparisons and differences, they are dismissed by the other side. A sort of stalemate in finding common ground, but in Russia the Kremlin's point of view is quite often shared by some selected few.
Approved by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0g
If I'm emotionally burnt out about the crimes of a strongman like Putin who I have zero ability to change how will I put pressure on my local police chief to fire bad cops?
Edit: downvotes. You don't think its a fallacy? hahaha
Also NATO waging wars around the globe was never legal or just, we were just going for oil and other resources using "shortcut". During NATO imperialistic conquest we have international laws and UN, but it seems that international organisation has more decorative purpose than anything else equally goes for Russia and China. Russia's war dogs would never be in Libya if we have not had destroyed that country first. During Roman empire at least they created roads, aqueducts, they gave writing system, what good did NATO give to any of those middle east countries?