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Serious question. What is the second superpower? EU?

• LordKano 9y ago
  The USSR was the second superpower. The USSR no longer exists and there isn't currently a second superpower but I think of it like spouses. If you're married and divorced twice, when you marry again you may have only one spouse but that is your third spouse.
  • pdelbarba 9y ago
    So does that make England the 0th superpower and maybe France the -1st? ;)
  • nullnilvoid 9y ago
    China led the world for a long time way before the superpower concept was even a thing. It fell behind only recently since the 1st Industrial Revolution started.
• gozur88 9y ago
  It really depends on how you define "superpower". There isn't any country that can project force the way the US can. The EU certainly has the technology to be a military superpower, and a few member countries have relatively powerful land and air forces, but the Europeans don't have the logistics capability they'd need to fight a major war outside Europe, and their collective navy isn't very strong.