They have always been about killing objectively awful people but the third mission in the first of the reboot trilogy is literally about killing a corrupt banker and a reactionary general involved in what is heavily implied to be a color revolution bankrolled by Swedish capitalists and the CIA.
even that was a media push from the US to separate themselves from Nazism in the public eye, while in actuality they were promoting ex-Nazis and their allies to positions of power all around the globe
Yeah, it was definitely politically motivated, but… at least it wasn’t nearly as xenophobic and bigoted as later Cold War garbage. At least the Bad Guys were actual bad guys, not a terrible caricature of The Commies.