the remaining differences are mostly about aesthetics and not about the use of violence to maintain hegemony
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Indeed. But the general direction of world order has been moving against that sort of thing, and increasingly, many serving US politicians and citizens. Trump is undermining both US and global progress away from the worst traits of human hegemonic History and putting them back on full display.
What makes you think so?
Institutions like NATO and the ICC, global trade agreements, security guarantees, economic interdependencies, multiculturalism, air travel, the infrastructure of the internet. The fact a bridge collapse or building fire might make international headlines. Movies and culture from around the world being mainstream.
What makes you not think so?
Wow. I see the first four or five things you mentioned as the primary enablers of "this sort of thing," if by that you mean the theft of resources and destabilization of governance in the global south.