TeddostheFireKing on 10 September 2011
| GuiltySpartan77 said: Honestly i see the USA as a super power still but i was born and raised here so i am biased on that view. Although i have been against the United States relying so much on China for borrowing purposes. Anyway The US technically isn't weaker, As some Europeans like to think. For example if North America was to fight a war with another country other than current middle east who do you think would win? let me get more specific The US is backed by Multiple powerful nations like the UK, Japan, pretty much all of the EU, and Even Australia, and to a lesser extent India and South America. Economically yes the US has weakened but what country hasn't felt the effects of the Economy? (other than China and India). So you have to dig a little deeper to really understand what position the US is in right now. |
I'd like to point out that these nations are currently are only ones who could compete with the USA on a technological level (with the exception of Russia who is still quite powerful), most nations engaging with a war with America are signifcantly smaller and less well armed, so for a fair fight, it would really have to be either USA vs. Russia, USA vs. the EU or USA vs. China imo. If one of those happened, I don't think the fight would be so one sided.
@ OP: America is simply percieved to be weaker now than it was at the end of the Cold War
