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Originally posted by EvilTree The days of direct military confrontation is over... Well, until US cease to exist as superpower. So having a big military necessarily isn't a good thing. It just cost a lot to maintain and for most cases, just sits there. (Unless you get into Iraq style conflict which is another case all together)

U.S. has a smaller army than China or India, but their cost per unit is a lot higher.

1 U.S. Soldier = Kevlar, helmet, M-16/M-4 assault rifle, pistol sidearm, radio, night vision, camouflage uniform, ABC suit.

1 Chinese soldier = flip flops, rice hat, AK-47 (optional)

lol...

and each one of those aircraft carriers is like 2 Billion a year upkeep, along with all fighter jets, subs, ships, etc.

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Originally posted by EvilTree The days of direct military confrontation is over... Well, until US cease to exist as superpower. So having a big military necessarily isn't a good thing. It just cost a lot to maintain and for most cases, just sits there. (Unless you get into Iraq style conflict which is another case all together)

Imagine China and India got into a war, would be bad news, for everyone.

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Originally posted by Invasionmix U.S. has a smaller army than China or India, but their cost per unit is a lot higher. 1 U.S. Soldier = Kevlar, helmet, M-16/M-4 assault rifle, pistol sidearm, radio, night vision, camouflage uniform, ABC suit. 1 Chinese soldier = flip flops, rice hat, AK-47 (optional) lol... and each one of those aircraft carriers is like 2 Billion a year upkeep, along with all fighter jets, subs, ships, etc.

I LOL'd at the chinese soldeir comment

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Originally posted by Invasionmix with all this super power talk and what not... Who's keeping an eye out for Australia? You rarely see any news about them, and they havn't had a war in the longest time.... They must be up to something.

Thats a very interesting topic you raised will have to research on it now.

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Originally posted by Provocative_boi Thats a very interesting topic you raised will have to research on it now.

nah, the Aussies are waaaay too chilled to fight. they're too busy surfing!

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Europe.

india, but maybe we'll all sink in rising seas and die before anyone else can take control.

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Russia needs to attract new investors in order to harness the natural resources Siberia has, but at current moment, the political climate is too hostile for investment in Russia. This may force Russia to turn to China as investor, unless US's superpower status is somehow broken in next 50 yrs, and allowing Russia to assert its dominance on the world stage.

Russia does need to attract foreign investment and it does despite the political climate. Europe needs Russian oil and gas (more and more in future) and political climate wont change that fact. Russian economy has been growing at an exploding rate (around 7%) for like 7 years straight now and the projections are around 6-7% annually growth for the next five years. Imo in the next 5-10 years Russia will become one of the major and most influential world players.
As for future superpower my vote goes to China.

Tiesto.

there will never be any other super power but the USA

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Originally posted by emonster4life there will never be any other super power but the USA

jokes

Nations are ruled by the interests of MNCs and Conglomerates. So therefore none of the above options

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