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What metric do you use to call Russia a superpower? Saudi Arabia has larger military budget than Russia. And compared to US, it is not even in the same order of
by d0mine 10y ago
What metric do you use to call Russia a superpower? Saudi Arabia has larger military budget than Russia. And compared to US, it is not even in the same order of magnitude.
- woodandsteel 10y agoWell, Russia has about 5 times as many military personal, plus about 2,000 nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
- d0mine 10y agoAgain, Russia won't even get a bronze medal by the "active military" metric. Unless you would call North Korea a superpower too; it is the poor metric. I give you nuclear weapons. Only US has more nuclear weapons. But does it matter in the real world? https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g (imagine what happens in Russia that has military budget 10 times less than US and no less corruption). Though I still don't understand the logic: Russia has nuclear weapons and therefore it is a superpower compared to US and China? (non-existent political power, isolated, under economic sanctions--what the word "superpower" even means in that case). I understand something has to justify an enormous US military budget--if you don't have real threats; you have to invent them. It wouldn't be unusual that a war were started under false pretences anyway. (if a presidential candidate can laugh while talking about the rape of a 12-year-old girl; she wouldn't even blink before launching the next war https://youtu.be/e2f13f2awK4 https://youtu.be/e2f13f2awK4 )