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All things are relative by both comparison and perspective. Most of South America would likely disagree with calling us the preferable superpower.
by hollywood_court 4y ago
All things are relative by both comparison and perspective.
Most of South America would likely disagree with calling us the preferable superpower.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoThat was my thought while reading the post you responded to. A US Citizen thinks the US is the best superpower? color me shocked (I'm also a US Citizen).
- ethanbond 4y agoOther recent contenders: Japan, Germany, USSR, and China? A US citizen thinks any of those even has a chance of being preferable to the US? Color me shocked!
- IYasha 4y agoI have an undefined identifier: Color::shocked. Which one would you like me to #define for you? I'd go for pink :)
- Beltalowda 4y agocolor="shocked" is kind of a turquoise blue.
- Gareth321 4y agoI am not American and I consider America to be preferable to just about any other contender. I'll take the EU, but if China were to ever take the role of the U.S., we are all in big trouble.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoYeah, also not American, but given that the options are the US, the Russians or the Chinese, then the Americans are the least worst option (from my perspective, at least).
- enw 4y agoI’m also not American but am glad they are the world’s police. I’ll take them any day over Russia, China or any other large power.
- solveit 4y agoAlso not American, and I will add to the chorus. There is no potential superpower half as palatable as the US and I don't expect one to rise.
- Bakary 4y agoI can understand America and China being the only two realistic options for a superpower at the moment. What I don't understand is the idea that the EU as a superpower is less plausible than Russia?
- saltcured 4y agoI can't speak for the earlier commenter, but I think there is a large gap between what the EU does today and what it would need to do to be a "superpower". It is left to our imaginations to guess at such a future, and so disagreements may just stem from different imagined scenarios. I don't think the US would be a superpower if the treaties, tariffs, and military control were parceled out to the individual states and each state governor and state assembly decided when to work as a block and when to act independently.
- anon9384929 4y agoIt can’t even keep its most important members in. European pride will be its downfall. When asked, Americans are Americans first, then whatever state they come from second. Europeans are whatever state they come from first, European second. Most European countries haven’t seen per capita GDP growth since the beginning of the millennium. They’d rather preserve their “culture” than compete and survive, and it’s starting to show up in the data.
- Bakary 4y ago
- gadders 4y agoYou'd have preferred Soviet Russia?
- hollywood_court 4y agoI don’t remember saying that.
- snovv_crash 4y agoThe issue is that the Soviet Union was the other viable contender for superpower during the CIA-in-South-America days.
- carschno 4y agoApart from the superpowers, there were also significant political forces that were supporting democracy and social justice. On the other hand, both USA and USSR actively (and succesfully) fought them. I don't see any sense in calling either of the superpowers preferable in this context.
- solveit 4y agoThe point of the word "preferable", is that it means something different to the word "good".
- ethanbond 4y agoYes things could’ve been different and maybe better if you subtract huge amounts of reality (like the existence of rival empires)
- neonsunset 4y agoWhat makes you think democracy and social justice are compatible? What’s your definition on the latter?
- feet 4y agoDo you really think the CIA stopped being in South America?