I assure you, america will be quite happy being left alone to be our weird selves without having to throw treasure all over the world in an attempt to keep Europe,.Asia, Arabia, and India from each individually starting WW3.

We hate empire building (which is why we're so famously bad at it), are more thoroughly embarrassed by our sins than any country except maybe Germany (which is why you hear so much about it), and as a nation really desire nothing more than to be left alone to pursue our own happiness (which is why we get made fun of for only speaking world's most-spoken language and rarely travelling from one of the largest and most diverse countries on the planet.)

I don't mean to talk down on the rest of the world, or defend the 20th century shitstorm we led. It's just that if there was literally anybody else to "lead the free world" we'd have done what we did after WW1 and gone home to make movies, dumb gadgets, and argue about our social order. Except we did that already, which was (part of) why WW2 happened.

Alexis de Toquville clocked the country very well centuries back, and once we are either persuaded that the rest of y'all won't nuke and genocide each other or Trump'd out of power we'll be quite happy on our own. Honest. (Especially if the world's most assholish billionaires move to your country and leave us alone.)