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.
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.