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Mistakes are going to happen and the world has changed. The battlefield is everywhere now. It's not good, but from a high level the US leading the world led to fewer combat deaths.

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...

Note that that graph is logarithmic.

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The reason that world has fewer full-fledged wars now is major powers have mutual assured destruction, US-leading doesn't come close as that.

Very few countries have nukes and that is part of the US-leading thing. The MAD thing might work out for us, but it is too early to really tell. Might just be pushing the risk to the tails.

One country waging most of the wars and maiming instead of killing is not an improvement.

How is it not?

It is an improvement considering the last time we had multiple powers we saw minor countries get carved up by major countries and the whole thing eventually flare up in a war that spanned continents, between major countries, and killed millions.

Even the two power order of the Cold war just meant double the problems - the USSR had its fair share of adventures.

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