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The last time the US went into a war because there were malevolent people in the world who posed a direct threat to the nation was in the 1940s

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Depends how you define direct threat. The threats changed after WW2 for technological, industrial and economic reasons.

Also, I don't follow the spirit of your comment. The United Nations came out of WW2. And the US is a key member of those coalitions against any malevolent regimes.

Just how it works. A direct threat isn't a thing anymore of relevance when you're a member of a coalition.

How about the Korean and Vietnam wars? Iraq? Afghanistan? Maybe they weren't officially declared wars like WW1/2 but if sending troops to a country to fight doesn't constitute wars I don't know what does.

The implication of my post is that those wars were not "because there were malevolent people in the world who posed a direct threat to the nation". The US could just as well not have not gone to war in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Pretty sure the rationale for Korea/Vietnam was exactly "because there were malevolent people in the world who posed a direct threat to the nation", just targeted towards the USSR/communism

and what about latin america.

there’s no end to the abuses of the US military around the world, and MS is helping these killers in exchange of money.

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