Not anymore, see lack of counter sanctions on oil buyers in India and China of Russian oil. (Even though oil buyers in China have significantly increased their purchase volume and Indian purchases of Russian oil have increased 3100%, not a typo, YoY)

Of course Washington doesn't want to give the Russian, Chinese, and Indian establishments common cause against the US.

The complexities and intricacies of geopolitics (which is both driven and impacted by history, culture, school of taught, incentives,.. etc) are literally like a DC Comic Movie in the minds of some people with United States being the superhero world police who will crush evil with a mighty army and restore democracy and peace throughout the world..

That's not a very good example.

What happened to Dotcom is fairly normal in the case where someone in country X is doing something that violates similar laws in both country X and country Y, more of the damages are occurring in country Y than in country X, and X and Y have extradition treaties.

Yeah, people have helicopters sent overseas to flank their home after pissing off music and movie companies all the time, cmon!