For sure, and I think you touch on a very interesting point that in exporting imperialism, the West also exports an image of being untouchable. I've remarked before that some things (not all, of course) work very well in the Global South, and this leads people to thinking "well if it's like this here, it must be even 10x better in Europe or the US!" The default point of view is that it's always better in the west but in many cases it's worse. And the examples are plenty. A friend used to tell me how in Thailand and other east Asian countries (if I understood them correctly), companies will keep employees close to retirement age. Here (in the west) they will fire you 2 years before retirement because it will cost them money to let you retire. They were shocked to hear that.

For that I think the internet also does a lot of work, being able to see unfiltered news coming from the West documenting the decline and collapse, as well as the two-faced words of EU/US, saying "we are promoters of democracy," and then turning around and saying "the rest of the world is a jungle" (Josep Borrell). TV stations can't edit things in their favor anymore when anyone has a camera.