This is irrelevant. I agree with you that the US has done evil. I’ve criticized it. But it’s so fucking ahistorical by any standard — I don’t give a fuck HOW you define war — to suggest that the last half of the 20th century through the oughts and teens of the 21st haven’t been the most peaceful in the history of recorded civilization.

And thinking that if you just take America out of the equation and everything would have been so much more peaceful because you think that the only thing fueling war is the profit motive of the military industrial complex is so naive, and so geopolitically ignorant, that it’s nausea-inducing.

The idea that America is the principle agent in all conflict, and that conflict will subside fi the US was defanged is ridiculous. There are so many geopolitical tensions built in historical, cultural and religious animosities that have nothing to do with the US. And if anything, it’s been the US’s shadow that has kept some of those conflicts at bay. And we’re seeing some of them flare up as we speak!