I guess I should have put it in the context I was thinking of: which historical hegemon was preferable? My sense is that being a hegemon seems to involve such

I guess I should have put it in the context I was thinking of: which historical hegemon was preferable? My sense is that being a hegemon seems to involve such harms and interventions, and the US hegemony was especially vast. So I'm viewing things in terms of that scale. (If a non-hegemon had done that list, they would be public enemy number 1)