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Sorry but there isn't anyone who comes close to having 1/8th of the weird charisma that Trump does. Of course he's a figurehead, but the puppeteers are making good use of the unique world he's cultivated. Not everyone can get away with doing the most heinous things and just brushing them off with dismissive one-liners or incomprehensible rants.
It's that brovado that might be emboldening them to push forward with more and more brazen acts where someone else who was leading the charge straight up could not command the needed degree of overconfidence. (Again, hypothetical, pointless, because we're talking about a parallel universe, but I do think Trump is not so easily replaced like for like.)
We've already seen what a Trump replacement looks like, though. It was Joe Biden and he's the one who started the genocide in Palestine. He also wanted to fight Russia to the death of every last Ukrainian.
Reaction in the US isn't exclusively republican. Had Trump been assassinated or lost reelection, a democratic president would be sitting in front of us talking about how Venezuela is a threat to US sovereignty and security. The Gulf of Tonkin was a lie by a democrat. Pol Pot was backed by a democrat. Libya was had open air slave markets because of a democrat.
So the point still stands: adventurism is just adventurism. Violence has a place and is not only justified, but necessary. But it has to have revolutionary organizing behind it with changes that are systemic.