Originally Posted by irateplatypus

simple question. i hope the mods won't mind if i try to spark some discussion before i infuse a bit of my own thought.

what would the world be like without the US?

so we're more focused in the discussion, i'd like to limit it to "how the world would be different if there were no US (or a version of the US that is essentially militarily, economically, culturally inert) since the end of world war II?"

Hitler is defeated, Japanese expansion is rebutted... yet the world is left without the United State's fingerprints since then...

would the world be better off? worse? unaffected?