If Japan avoided the US and Germany avoided Russia the world would be very different. Note to the power mad just be patient while building up your advantage. Instead of killing people those same people would line up to be your goons.
Why go back that far? You only have to go back 3 months and the democrats were lining up to get in bed with Liz Cheney. For her there never was a lie too big to tell to draw the United States into war. She repeatedly made the claim that Saddam Hussein helped orchestra 9/11. She got 4500 Americans killed and cost the country over $4 trillion for her lies, but Donald Trump is a threat to Democracy.