Agree with much of what you say here- although in WW2 Russia lost an estimated 24 million and China 20 million. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war

But for sure the US era of global hegemony has not been without brutality- take the 1 million Indonesians murdered on CIA orders to remove Sukarno or the removal of Mossadagh in Iran.

Today China and Russia witness the decline of viability of the US empire and seek to carve out their now, wider power spheres. It probably will be a more multi-polar world. The transition might be messy. The new norm might be too...