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I think I just understood our main point of difference. Maybe.
For me, the problems in the middle-east / West Asia for example, have been created due to colonialism. More specifically, because eurpean colonisers carved up the area when the Ottoman Empire started to crumble. In a way, I look further back in time to find the root cause, which is not that long ago, if you think about it. Btw, I also consider the US power-house as a problem that derived from european colonialism. Similarly, Australia and Canada even if they don't seem to have the US power ambitions on global geopolitics.
This is why I also see migration as such a difficult issue, but as you might have noticed I didn't talk about solutions. The prosperity of western societies was created and is maintained due to the exhaustive exploitation of other parts of the world. I believe before the west addresses that, there can be no solutions, and and-aid legislation (best case scenario that is) cannot help the healing of such deep wounds.
The problem I see with the West addressing this is that for that to happen, we have to stop viewing the West as a single unitary thing, both in terms of nations and of social class. You can't blame the whole collective West while expecting them to join your side of the neocolonialism debate.
And the flip side is that the whoel subject cannot really be talked about without looking at geopolitics as a whole. Neocolnialism is practiced by all major and some minor powers today, and it is the exact same dynamic playing out in Ukraine that is playing out in Palestine, with the small difference that Ukrainians had a headstart of a mostly functional country in the first place so they can defend themselves from their aggressor more effectively.
Calling for the US to stop backing genocide only makes your argument anti-colonialist if you oppose other attempts of colonialism, like Russia trying to retain its colony Ukraine. Russia has been propped up just as much by its colonies as the US, except they never really made it to prosperity. TBH the current best hope for a great power that is independent enough not to be another colony to emerge, that does not directly need its colonies to even survive, is if Ukraine joins the EU. In that case, I think there may be a future when the French get out of Africa like how the British got out of much of their colonies.
My point here is that the statement that "the US-led West is the biggest exploiter and beneficiary of neocolonialism" might have been true between like 1990 and 2010, but before that the USSR was just as big a contender, and today's China and Russia are also trying to either set up their new colonial empire, or trying to reclaim some semblance of their old.
Not to mention that the "US-led West" has died with the re-election of Donald Trump.