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That's equivalent to say burning someones house down though and then telling them your not morally responsible because if you then had no further involvement with them they'd still be in trouble. If the US withdrew from wider influence on the world the problems it helped to foster would still obviously linger for a great deal of time as indeed has happened with colonialism.
When it comes to the alternative of course I think the ironic thing is that we have all this focus on Russia from the establishment but barely anything on China dispite the Chinese obviously have far more long term potential to replace the US which I'd agree could potentially lead to a far worse environment. I think it comes down again to the real driver for most US policy being the economic interests of the elite, Russia very often stands in opposition to those interests limiting for example US companies ability to profit from oil resource's in places like Syria. China on the other hand is much more integral to their wealth as an endless cheap source of labour.
I'd say conflicts and tension such as that between Russia and Baltic States, China and Japan, China and India, India and Pakistan (British policy), Saudi Arabia and Iran, Turkey and the Kurds, as well as general divide between the Sunnis and Shiites in the Muslim world all exist independently of the US with the potential to spin out of control upon serious withdrawal from international affairs. A withdrawl from the commitment to global maritime free trade would be another imminent disaster and serving as the guarantor of that costs us a shit ton of money, in addition to being largely responsible for the defense of Europe.
There's actually a considerable amount of attention being put towards China on several levels that just simply isn't front-and-center of the news cycle at the moment, mainstream nor alternative. The US is in the midst of a progressive and organic manufacturing renaissance rooted in innovation and reinvention that will make it the most competitive nation on the globe by 2020 with a lot of reshoring already happening. There's a burgeoning surplus of reasons for 'Made In America', the use of China's cheap labor is getting downsized fast.