[throwaway15908]

Imagine a world ... imagine a united states in which people just respect this simple moral of not killing people by any means for any reason. Just imagine.

[imtringued]

That's impossible.

I can easily imagine that we achieve world peace within 50 years through two very simple economic reforms but I can't imagine that it will actually happen.

[flyinglizard]

Imagine a world where the US navy doesn’t sail all seas, where there are no US troops around the world, no NATO or Military Industrial Complex.

That’s not a world that I, as a Westerner, would want to live in.

[sgjohnson]

The alternative to the US-led global order is a global order led by some Chinese-Indian-Russian alliance.

That’s definitely not a world I’d want to live in.

[throwaway15908]

No one is born as your foe, they gradually become it. Fleeing into "but imagine what china would do" is exactly that, its creation.

Tracing the cirlce of violence back you can only state, that it has always been this way but that is also just a weak excuse of affective apes.

[watwut]

Are you assuming that literally everyone except Americans is purely reactive with no own ambitions and ideologies?

That is incredibly arrogant look at the world.

[AussieWog93]

>Chinese-Indian-Russian alliance

I think hell would freeze over before those three teamed up.

[giraffe_lady]

Well yeah. Neither does a thief want to live in a world where they must return the goods and be held accountable. Traditionally we don't weigh their desires very heavily in those decisions.