Fair points. I might just be being overly optimistic about the power of a digitally connected world, but I would hope that anywhere that citizens have online access to free and unlimited information or, if they are really determined to find it, can easily circumvent government censorship of it they would be more globally conscious and individually-minded, making them less easily swayed by warmongering propaganda and simply wouldn't provide those administrations that disagree with proactive unilateral action taken by the democratic world with the man-power they would need to do anything about it. Sure, there are Big Brother states like North Korea but such underdeveloped and totalitarian countries only pose a serious threat to people within their own borders or those countries very close by.
To be fair, were it not for level-headed individuals like Vasili Arkhipov, the Cold War could have been a lot hotter. xS