The USA did intervene quite a bit, you know. First in all of South America - that old Monroe Doctrine. A cursory look at South American history will tell you how well that went in terms of promoting freedom™

A non-cursory look at Latin American history will tell you that the Monroe Doctrine was a policy of supporting other American nations against European interference and that it actually did promote freedom™. The US helped kick the French Empire out of Mexico, helped kick the Spanish Empire out of Cuba, and sided with colonial independence movements throughout North and South America, and its relations with other American nations were generally positive throughout the period, as can be seen in the government forms chosen by the United States of Brazil,, the United Mexican States,, the United Provinces of Central America, etc. But the Monroe Doctrine was explicitly limited to the Americas and didn't apply elsewhere.

Or the USA intervening in Russia in 1918 during the Russian Civil War. Sure helped prevent Communism.

That was after the United States had been sucked into WWI despite making every effort to remain neutral, and the point wasn't to prevent communism but to enable troops to reach the western front and to keep the Japanese from taking advantage of the situation.

Or the USA forcing Japan to open to trade via gunboat diplomacy.

Fair point on that one, but trade is just trade.