Again, 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

Again, 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 )