>The Western nations apparently cannot stop it without 'losing face".
Yep, if you have been around psychopaths in your life, if you have had a psychopath close to you then you KNOW. When you call out the psychopath on one of their lies, with proof, the psychopath CAN NOT find a way to 'save face'. Oh, she will say try to say: "but you do bad things too". You say: NO dear, this one is ALL ON YOU.
You do that to a psychopath and there is ONLY ONE thing the psychopath can do. Destroy you. Dang, she may even seduce the sheriff. And because he's a horn dog and she is great at 'woe is me' seduction then you got police squad cars coming to your house.
Moral: Don't fuck, or fuck around,with psychopaths.