After the U.S. loses its superpower status which country will gain it and why?
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YOU ARE SO NAIVE TO THINK THAT POWER CAN BE IN THE HANDS OF A NATION. Read the following and see what I mean:\n\nIt is not the politicans to have the power to send the soldiers to death.\n\nYou must learn who the real enemy of the world's innocent peoples, including Americans and American soldiers outside America. \n\nThere are two kinds of Bush supporters: The genious ones; They are the owners of great transnational companies... And the idiots, they are the voters who  waste their votes in favour of those transnational companies. \n\nNow that we live in the age of disinformation, maybe it won't make any difference to you. The ages are getting darker and darker. And I wanted to share with you the following facts: If you agree with me please send them to as many friends of you as possible... \n\nThe transnational companies which are using American government and ARMY to sip oil from Iraq are paying back with some of the money they have earned by selling the oil they have been continuously stealing from Iraq. They will do the same in Iran and Venezuella.\n\nYou won't believe it but some transnational companies are there to force the Yahoo Corp. to delete my questions here. But I am continuously changing my name to hide it from them. Until they find me, thousands of people will have learned that America is no more controlled by its NATIONAL companies. Transnational companies are a great threat both for America and the world. A transnational company is one that feels no loyalty to any nation. They don’t pay any taxes to any government and they are strong enough to overthrow governments all over the world. For the time being they are using Americans. They threat America by the fact that if they draw their capital and investments from America 25 % of its population will be jobless. \n\nThe fight and the tension between the members of the Senate is in fact a fight between the American and non-American capital owners. Right after the 9/11 the nationalistic or loyal American capital owners became a little bit stronger and passed a decree from the senate to the effect that the central government and the states are to buy their weapons from NATIONAL war industries... But at present non-American capital owners have become stronger enough to sip petroleum out of Iraq by using American ARMY. This is the horrible fact about American Politics and Bush is not loyal to America.\n\nSorry for the terrible English. Wish you prosperity and happiness. I am a mere warrior to enlighten people about facts.… Yes, they are my facts. But believe me they aren’t groundless.
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HELL NO!  America is tending to interfere in other countrys matters far too much. They should realise by now that the second world war ended in 1945 with the unification of italy. The two super powers were usa and Russia. Russia got over it that times change but its just that usa is still stuck on the whole "super power of the world" thing. What happens in iraq and the middle east is their concern and they will sort it out their way usa has no right to interfere. usa has oil reserves that it can use but it wants to use the oil in the middle east that belongs to them but then kinda mysteriously got under iraq. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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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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Depends on what you consider a country, and what area of that country is under the microscope. Military, the United States.\nEconomically, the European Union (not a country, but their economies are integrated together, and they are economically more powerful than the USA).\nIn terms of economic and military potential, the Dragon (China) is starting to awaken, and could possibly overtake the USA and the European Union in terms of both military and economics.
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United States. Russia would've been #2, but most of theirs are decommissioned. India is proabbly #3. China a close #4.
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U.S.A all the way!!!\n\nOh wait, they already lost.
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yes.\ni would even go so far to say that are likely to become the next world "hyper" power. (the US is the first recognized hyper power country and was so some time after the fall of USSR)\nchina has said for a long long time they were tired of being treated as a second rate country and were going to emerge as a superpower.  the three gorges dam was just one of many things they started doing to boost themselves.\nthey definitely have a goal and there is no sign that they will reach it.
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The US will only bomb.  They have no prayer of holding the country without a unified coalition of nations.  The bombing will probably take place in about another year.
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Given the current political and military capabilites of both countries, I would say Iran.\n\nThis is why:\n\n~The United States military is very stretched due to deployments in afganistan and iraq.\n~The United States government has very limited global support, especially from Russia and China (who have economic ties to Iran)\n~Iran supports the powerful terrorist network Hezbollah (which can cordinate strikes against Oil Freights and Rigs)\n~Iran has a larger regional military capability (Russian, Chinese, and North Korean missle systems capable of hittin target as far as Europe)\n~United States is on the verge of an economic crisis due to increase in oil prices and a weaker dollar (compared to the euro and yen), meanwhile Iran has no such energy shortage.\n\nIf you consider other military conflicts of the two countries it is obvious who would win in a war - Iran.\n\nAmerican soldiers fear death, in contrast to Iranian soldiers and militia whom believe their death is equal to martyrdom. Oh and not to mention that the majority of the American people are against armed conflict with Iran.\n\nI hope this answers your question.
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The United States of America do doubt about it.
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Hi, \n\nThe only superpower is the US, \n\nHowever CHINA is a rising giant...\n\nCheers!!
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Two strong super powers with equally strong economic power.  Competition is good for the world's markets....economically speaking.  I think the U.S. has done a very good job maintaining it's military and economic power.  Imagine what other countries would do with this power.  They would not be so giving, so sparing, nor friendly.
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Switzerland, but they've always kept well out of any military involvement. The don't even have much of a standing army, but every man is trained in the use of guns, and guerilla tactics.\nThe US will go the way of all empires, the bad thing about this, from a European perspective, is that they probably will drag us down with them. It is not really wealth that destroys a nation, but relentless expansionism, as the US has practised ever since its founding.
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The day of the US being a dominate player in the world has come and gone.
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over a hundred year period, America will cease to be the global force that it is today, the chances of Australia taking its place are slim. \n\nThe contenders at the moment seem to be a United Europe, China and India.
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China is the new superpower : they built half of the goods, has a powerfull military and are the only nation with a decent space program for the future.\nIndia and the European union power is only economic.\nChina number 1 in less than 15 years
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Not if they keep taxing the rich and feeding the poor, 'til there are no rich no more. You need money to become a superpower. In other words with all the socialism going on and stifling the free market, they aren't likely to become a 'super power'.