I mean to be fair it's easy to be both, back in WW2 that was the British reason for not surrendering to Germany after France fell, there was a belief that they'd fuck up and drag the US or the Soviets into the war

And we were right, just not aware they'd drag both in at the same time. Being evil usually means you have to pick those 'ideologically pure' first and merit whenever so you tend to employ a lot of people that believe the right things but completely useless in everything else.