The United States is one pretty warmongerish nation by any account.
Compared to other modern nations, but compared to history vary peaceful.
It is not childish to aspire to be better.
Seems to me that most of our friends in the balkans that have memory of the past wars are overall pretty happy about the current state of things, and there hasn't been wars to contend Alsace-Lorraine in 80 years, is it a record already?
War is very much not a given in the civilized world
Powerless without american hardware and intelligence: You wish. Big tech is spending so much lobbying our governments in fear of us leaving them for open solutions, or god forbid paying fair amount of taxes.
And regarding intelligence, we would have been so much better without the CIA & co spying our politicians and messing with our governments, aiding and sponsoring domestic right wing terrorism for the past 50 years.
the only reason we dont have antimatter weapons or gravity guns is because we haven't figured out how.
That's the state today. Throughout history there's been a long negotiation about what weapons have been allowed in combat.