Hundreds of years from now, will america still be the most powerful country??
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How many people across the globe still consider us the most powerful country as it is? Our reputation is dwindling. (If you ask me, the current administration shoulders the biggest share of blame for this.) Headlines such as "EVERY NATION ON EARTH SIGNS KYOTO AGREEMENT; US REFUSES" are not enhancing our popularity. It's time to stop resting on our laurels.
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I think there is a combination of socialism and democracy that has yet to be realized. As for America, you alsom must realize that all empires eventually fall. Be it in 100 years or 1000. Nothing lasts forever.
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The question was not the "largest"... the asker's question was "strongest".\n\nBy this I can only assume they mean "most devastating in its capability" or "most effective when engaged" and that they do not mean "the military that can lift the most weight".\n\nAnswer: The United States of America has the 'strongest' military. Here's why:\n- Firepower: The U.S. possseses and controls the largest amount of destructive explosives on the planet. Bullets, dynamite, gunpowder, C-4, fuel bombs, napalm and nuclear, just to name a few types.\n- Weapons delivery: The U.S. has the most accurate, well maintained, highe-tech, widely deployed and well-run firepower delivery system on Earth. Gun barrel accuracy, naval, air, land delivery systems - all highly maintained to very stringent standards.\n- Intelligence: Despite all the joke we could make about this word and the military, the fact remains that no country has the technical and human intelligence and intelligence processing capabilities as the U.S. The NSA alone has a budget bigger than India's gross national product in 2004. Satellites, command and control, phone, internet, private internets, video communications, data encrpyion, data de-cryption, diversified Human spy assets, global corporate data, data mining, etc., etc., etc.\n- Money: no military in the world is as well funded, consistently well funded, as the U.S. Military is.\n\nIf this is the best answer, please vote it the best answer. Thanks!
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India is most certainly gaining power at major events and companies. Yet, according to statistics, India would reach The 5th position by the year 2020. Only if they keep their internal regulators at hand with due control. (Stock market and much more!) Its like a major development in less than 100 years!\n\nBut United States of America would still be the No.1 in position in the world in the year 2020.\n\nPlease do not use SMS abbreviated words in a place like this!
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United State will remain as a military superpower for a while. However, the economical power is expected to be modified in the next 20-30 years. Things that may affect the supremacy of American economy are: the economical rise of China and India, and the end of the dollar as the sole international trade currency. Of critical importance for the economy of the US is the fact that ALL oil transactions are made in dollars. As some nations begin to push for trading oil  using euros, this monopoly is being challenged. However, it is not clear who will become the economic new power. It may happen that no nation will become a Superpower.
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Right now, there are two global powers: US and China, though US has more military might, both have extensive international influence and contacts. There are three military superpowers: Israel is number one, followed by US, then Russia. There are several economic superpowers: Europe, China, US. There are many regional powers: Brazil, Australia, Japan.\n\nIt would be a good thing for the US to have competing powers. One major bully in the world causes instability (as it does in any group--village, city, state). There needs to be a balance of powers, else you end up with dictatorship and totalitarianism, as you now have in the US internally with no checks on the administraive branch from a one-party government and a Jelly Fish Congress and Judiciary--and a totally kowtowed press.\n\nEurope could emerge in the next twenty years as a military and economic superpower, but China will get there first.
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China will be the most powerful country and United States will obey China's politics. . .
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This is a thoughtful question..........Yes, this is a real possibility. America has always stood for the premise of what our country was founded by our forefathers.  Today we have so many people that want to enjoy the "freedom" of our Nation but do not want to accept the responsibilities. Many people do not hold to the same beliefs of the Bill of Rights or the Constitution...........they think of self and the dollar.  Many of the same 7 reasons Rome fell exist in the United States today.  Others have touched on the reasons, this weakens our nation. We need to take back the strengths that we held true in the 20th century and prior years.
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In my opinion, no.  Those people have been ruled by force for thousands of years.  The strong man will always come in and take power.  Its just the way things are done there.  Perhaps we will establish democracy for a few years, perhaps a decade, but it will eventually revert to dictatorship.
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Yes.  We've got fire power beyond our nuclear capabilities.  We are ham strung by politics, not war fighting capabilities.
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Sadly, yes....\n\nLiberty for... the rich, the powerful and only if you were born an American.
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The short answer is 'No'. I think it is hard to define what you put as "Anglo-American" powers.  Do you mean the West, or specifically England and the United States?  In any event, we must realize that neither the West nor the Islamic world is a monolithic entity.  There are widely varrying strains and currents throughout both.  From a strategic perspective, the US is unrivaled.  From an ideological perspective, there are ongoing shifts toward conservativism and fundementalism in both the West and the Arab world.  These shifts are largely reactionary to the rise of globalism.  Ultimately the historical trend toward openness and integration, driven by a global economy, will overcome zenophobic impulses in both the West and the entire Islamic world.
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Yes it will if it does not maintain its superiority in the technology that controls the new technological age ahread.\n\nIn the 16th 17th and 18th centuries the great empires relied upon technological command of the seas. Portugal and Spain split the new world and far east into two parts between.  The Pacific was a Spanish lake with the exception of the agreed upon division with Portugal.  The energy provided by Spanish sea power created and maintained this empire for over a hundred and fifty years.  The Dutch and English then began their rise to power based upon technological innovation in sea power and the massive loss of the Spanish Amada in the English Channel.  The race for sea energy was won by the English over the Dutch while the French, by virtue of their developing fleet, challanged the English in a world war the resulted in the French losing colonies all over the world, including in North America.  By 1765 English sea power had become supreme in the world.  The United Stats, as it developed, began as a sea power not long after its independence, but, it was British sea power that controlled the world sea lanes.\n\nAt the same time England was able to advance beyond all other nations in technolocical development because of the industrial revolution  going there due to the discovery of vast amounts of coal and iron for the making of cheap steel. England maintained its world leadership and extended its empire until world war I when its decline began and the rise of U.S. power began.   Again the U.S. rise to power resulted from its technological development of energy from oil which became abundant in the U.S. after 1900.\n\nBy 1900 it was clear to American naval leaders that sea power is what controlled the world and that sea power would be controlled by those who controlled the energy (oil) that would propell the ships of the 20th century navy.  Thus the U.S. began its rise as a sea power based upon its control of a huge supply of oil.  By the end of world war II it was the only superpower,until the Soviet Union decided to challange it with resources that it did not have until it finally  collapsed in the late 20th century.\n\nSince before World War II the search for energy and and the control of energy has motivated and created the American empire.  America's energy at home, however, is running out and it has become dependent on oil located in lands that, for a variety of reasons, have become hostile to the U.S.\nIn addition new powers are arising: China, India, Indonesia, all of which are developing and have a new and great need for oil.  The supply of oil to the U.S., therefore,is shrinking and the price is, therefore, rising.\n\nSo you see why we are really in Irac which has a vast untapped oil supply.\n\nHowever, oil is going to run out for everyone some time.  So the question of American superiority needs to address the energy that will follow oil.  This is wind, geothermal,hydrogen, vegatable, the sun itself directly, atomic and who knows what might be developed in the future.\n\nThus the battle for oil is shortsighted and American superiority can be maintained only it is is able reduce its dependence on oil and take control of the new energy technologies of the future.
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the 21st century has already been described as the "Chinese century."  If you want your kids to be REALLY employable when they're older, get them to learn Chinese.  Not because the Chinese will take over the world militarily (perhaps), but because they will become an exporting powerhouse.  Cheap labor, high exports...makes for a good economy.\n\nAs for whether the Chinese would "massacre" as another user said is to be seen.  I wonder what the Mongols would have thought of that statement!\n\nRussia doesn't have the power to control the various criminal elements in their society, nor the economy to generate the finances to control the world.\n\nAmerica will remain a powerhouse both militarily and economically for the foreseeable future.  I had to sound like a cliche but as long as there are men and women willing to give their life for the liberty and freedom America stands for America will continue to exist as a powerhouse.
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We are the most powerful country in the world DUH
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The United States is still the world's superpower. Some call it a hyperpower, in fact. We're still wealthy, and the human development index is high. I'd say your best bet is to get a education and a skill. The taxpayer thing is due to the fact that our population is aging. it isn't that we won't have taxpayers, but that the taxpayers will be supporting a ballooning population of retirees. The same thing has and is happening in Europe, by the way. And at a much more advanced degree.
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Sadly, for all the apocalyptic liberals out there, this situation will not and can not take place in our (I am making the assumption that we are addressing America) future. The reason I say this is because our country has faced moments of unbelievable despair, terror and fear and has continually avoided the uprising of a despot. Even more so, as long as the constitution is in place this situation will not arise because we have this little idea of "balance of powers" ingrained into it. While I understand that many people believe that the team of Rumsfeld, Rice, Bush and Cheney are capable of creating a system similar to that in V for Vendetta, I have to say I strongly disagree. America is an idealistic, wealthy and powerful country that will not risk the one dimensional nature of a theocratic/monarchic government. We are who WE are because we have free trade, freedom of speech and freedom of expression and to attack these values would weaken us to the level of a third world nation. While some may vilify corporate America and the material nature of our country, do you really believe that the top 20% of this country would risk losing the power they have and wield as a result of current system? If you answered yes to that, my response is an emphatic NO. Just think about the level of greed in this country, do you really believe that we would ever give our power and control to a small group of elites (compared to a large group)? There is no way, because we are all greedy, all materialistic and all (to an extent) imperialistic and because of this Americans will never let this situation arise. I appreciate you reading this and I hope that it results in further discourse and thought about this subject. Thank You.