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The idea that the US has any restrictions on violence or war, formal or informal, is an illusion. It's part of the facade of "liberal democracy".
The US hasn't "declared war" since WW2, but has militarily killed somewhere in the area of 15 million people since then by my estimate. Probably a lot more when you add in all the illegal unilateral sanctions. The UN exists to legitimize US wars and imperialism, and fails to do even that most of the time. There are zero consequences, so the only meaningful policy the us has adhered to in the last 100+ years is "might makes right".
If you consider excess deaths from the birth of US (including all that is not "direct" military action) it is likely to be 500 mill - 1 billion deaths.
Addendum - conservative estimates
That would include the federal reserves concentration camps and the Indian Residential fake School death camps. The federal reserves are the first concentration camps where Indigenous people continue to suffer from planned imprisonment, planned starvation, planned chemical attacks, and planned assaults by white rapists across the British diaspora. The Indian Residential fake schools were used by the British colonizers to gain free child slaves for competition against the Soviets, free child soldiers, free human child experimental subjects for vital human health research, free ransom money from Indigenous parents, and free stolen inheritance. For greater hypocrisy to their Christian slagan, the Indian Residential fake School system also became the churches of the anti-Christ where European immigrants gave child sacrificial offerings to the many demons and fake gods that the European immigrant slave drivers were hypocritically worshipping.
If we were to take the truly anti-racist approach on excess deaths and assume they (globally) would have all been developed (less take HDI greater than 0.9 as a very low bar to define "developed") then excess deaths will likely be an extra billion on top of the estimates already stated