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Iraq was an exception rather than the rule in that regard. What other war had the US fought just to turn a country to be more like itself?

Was there a single hegemon in history that was "hands off"? I really, really doubt it. The British Empire was even more interventionist and exported its culture more aggressively than the USA.

What does it matter? This whole stupid argument started because you insisted that if the US stopped acting in the "world police" role "the world wouldn't end." Except at all points in history there was either a great empire or a world policeman of some sort. It doesn't matter which. The point is...

Any place In any place where a power withdraws, a new power takes its place. A world without some great power tampering with it is fundamentally impossible, not at our tech level.