Would a world without the World Wars be better or worse?

The common thought that wouldn't history (Q - whose?) be better if Princip / Hitler / Stalin / Mao had been killed off before they "achieved their potential" has a darker side. We often bemoan the lost generations - those politicians, artists, scientists, doctors, etc. whose bright futures were snuffed out in 14-18 or 39-45, but how do we know that one or more of those lost could have been an even worse choice for humanity? A Hitler without his weaknesses, a British PM who would not hesitate to meet calls for independence for India with genocidal crackdowns, the atomic scientist who gives the Bomb to Stalin (or without Stalin would we have had someone like Beria?), a US President determined to conquer Mexico...

The question is how do they get in power? Also Stalin did get the Bomb.
 
I would imagine a Europe in denial of reality one in which a deadly cocktail of militarism and petty disputes would eventually lead to a violent disruption of the fifty year old peace made at Vienna after the defeat of Bonaparte. this Europe would be like a patient fighting for it's life as Cancer slowly takes over the body thus resulting in life's final stage - Death. reforms would have to be carried out and disputes settled before 1914. something I see as fruitless.
 
The common thought that wouldn't history (Q - whose?) be better if Princip / Hitler / Stalin / Mao had been killed off before they "achieved their potential" has a darker side. We often bemoan the lost generations - those politicians, artists, scientists, doctors, etc. whose bright futures were snuffed out in 14-18 or 39-45, but how do we know that one or more of those lost could have been an even worse choice for humanity? A Hitler without his weaknesses, a British PM who would not hesitate to meet calls for independence for India with genocidal crackdowns, the atomic scientist who gives the Bomb to Stalin (or without Stalin would we have had someone like Beria?), a US President determined to conquer Mexico...

A British PM who would not hesitate to meet calls for independence for India with genocidal crackdowns= OTL Churchill and the Bengal famine.
 
At work.

I can see it now.

Zepplin lifted Cavalry mounted special forces leading the charge.....

I'll.... see myself out....... (>_>)
 
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