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Would you have preferred if WW2 ended with it’s 1942 borders?

No, but would I have supported the rest of the war and killing everyone? Absolutely not. I would rather borders be weird than millions of people dying (apparently we are ignoring the rest of the details of the conflict?). Not sure what your point is.

easy to say when you have no skin in the game

I'd let Europe solve it's own problems and not intentionally provoke Japan and then leave myself open to attack at Pearl Harbor despite intercepting messages that it would be attacked like Roosevelt did.

How would you achieve world dominance, let’s call it Pax Americana, without war?

By not spending a generation of lives and treasure on war, and preventing the military industrial complex from growing so large that it runs the show. A anti interventionist America wouldn't have wasted resources on Vietnam or the Middle East either. Instead of war, invest in infrastructure have the world's cheapest energy and later fastest internet as well as the lowest taxes then dominate the nations who spend those funds on bombs and bullets instead.

Noble alternative history, but I’m not aware of a single empire in human history that achieved its global dominance peacefully.

Ability to start wars worldwide and profit from them was always the only path.

Dominance is really only good for the people who run the country. The people are better served by excellence. Contrast the dominant US to the comparatively pathetic Nordic nations in terms of standard of living. Being #1 has been ruinously expensive for the people.

You are completely right here. But the problem is that globalist elite that runs (rules?) USA has only own interests in mind, and they are achieved by using USA as a tool to achieve their own global dominance. They don’t care about USA or its citizens.

That’s why the best thing that can happen to this planet is a victory of a nationalist isolationist option on the next election.

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