Why The USA Will Always Be The Global Superpower

 

At the time of writing this blog, the US stands as the world's largest economy. By quite some distance, they have the most powerful military on earth with the largest military budget. They are the third most populated country in the world and the fourth largest country on earth by land size. So, it is fair to say that they are a global superpower. It is quite apparent that other countries of the world are catching up. Yes! China. We are looking at you but does China or any other nation or region have what it takes to overthrow the US and become the world's number one superpower. Let’s be honest, there are only a handful of countries that could ever compete for the title of the world's most powerful country to be a superpower. You need a large population, lots of land, wealth, natural resources and military expenditure. There is an ongoing discussion that China is emerging as a new superpower and replacing the US from the global power structure. China is emerging strongly from the growing global pandemic crisis due to the covert 19 pandemic. And Donald Trump's ally, alienating policies with nato have pushed this narrative forward. Considerably there is no doubt whatsoever that China is becoming the global powerhouse economically and is expected to surpass the US as the world's biggest economy by 2028. China is still behind but on its way to surpassing the US in military power with increased spending on weapons technology and developing several secretive weapons.

So,now let's jump into some reasons why the US will always be the global superpower. Firstly the United State already has a huge lead by the most important measures of national power. China is the only country that comes remotely close. America still has much more than China's wealth and five times its military capabilities that gap alone would take decades to close.Even if things go badly for the US and as China grows and increases their military. US will might be doing exactly the same thing. China's growth if anything will be motivation for the US to develop and invent new technologies to continue to grow their lead. Also it is unlikely that things would go badly for the US because it has the best long-term economic growth prospects among the major powers. Economists have shown that long-run growth depends on a country’s, demography and political institutions. The United States has an edge in all of these categories. So, unless something goes catastrophically wrong like a super volcano eruption at yellowstone national park, the US is safe in this regard. Geographically, the United States is a natural economic hub and military fortress. It is packed with resources and has more economic arteries like navigable waterways and ports than the rest of the world combined. Its only neighbours are Canada and Mexico. China, by contrast, has burned through its resources and is surrounded by 19 other countries many of which are hostile or unstable and 10 of which still claim parts of china's territory as their own. To put it lightly, the US benefits greatly from being rather isolated other superpowers like Russia, India and China. All border multiple countries including each other of those; many are unpredictable and unstable demographically. America is the only nation that is simultaneously big, young and highly educated. The US workforce is the third largest, second youngest, most educated in years of schooling and most productive among the major powers. And it is the only major workforce that will grow throughout this century. China, on the other hand, will lose around 200 million workers over the next 30 years and add 300 million senior citizens.

Chinese workers produce six times less wealth per hour than American workers. On average, more than two-thirds of China's workers lack a high school education and one-third of Chinese young people entering the workforce have an iq below 90. Okay! So, enough about China. What about Russia? The US's sworn enemy, during the cold war era, Russia threatens many US interests. It menaces US allies, props up US adversaries such as Iran and Syria murders pro-democracy advocates medals in elections and has recently seized foreign territory near its borders but Russia is not paused to become a rival superpower.  Russia's military budget is 10 times smaller than America's. Its economy is smaller than that of Texas. And its population will

shrink 30 percent over the next 30 years. Russia has no meaningful allies and it faces Nato, the most powerful alliance in history, on its borders. The United States needs to worry about Russia's activities, especially its election meddling and its actions in the Baltic’s. But it can do so without gearing for another cold war. But what if Russia and China united?. Russia and China will never form a genuine alliance. They share a 2600 mile border, compete for influence across Eurasia and sell arms to each other's enemies. Both Russia and China still harm US interests by acting in concert on a limited set of issues. For example, both countries have spent billions of dollars on media outlets and hackers aimed at reversing the spread of democracy across the US. The two countries have sanctioned US allies and colluded in the United Nations to block water down. US sanctions on North Korea and Iran and other countries more worryingly China and Russia would simultaneously start wars with U.S allies such as Chinese war with Taiwan and a Russian war in the Baltics which would seriously stretch the U.S military forces. Let's also not forget that the US dollar is the world's international currency used by countries all across the planet. Today more than 61 percent of all foreign bank reserves are denominated in U.S dollars.

According to the international monetary fund, many of the reserves are in cash or U.S bonds such as the U.S treasuries also approximately 40 percent of the world's debt is denominated in us dollars. The reserve status is based largely on the size and strength of the US economy and the dominance of the US financial markets. Despite large deficit spending trillions of dollars in debt and the unbridled printing of the US dollar, US treasury secret aries remain the safest store of money. The chance of these institutions all swapping their American dollars to Chinese renminbi or Russian rubles is extremely unlikely and again benefits the US astronomically. Speaking of crazy wealth, the majority of the most valuable companies on the planet are American.A t the time of writing this blog, seven of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world by market cap are American . A lot of these companies are technology-based organizations that are literally used by billions of people across the planet. All of this revenue data and information is being gathered by these companies to become only bigger, more powerful and efficient. It would take a serious monumental disaster for any other country to be able to surpass the US's dominance in global trade and finance. Also, the American culture is driven by the american dream particularly by hollywood it's what makes america the most influential country in the world. Any country that tries to build an entertainment industry that rivals that of America is a threat to a U.S national security too. So to summarize, China has far too many domestic issues that it is ignoring in its race to dominate the world stage. It is likely that one of these problems will cause China as it's currently iterated to either contract or fall into another civil conflict. Russia also is burdened by social issues that will preclude it from dominating the political scene anytime. Soon the European Union is having trouble keeping a number of its member nations financially afloat and in fact keeping many of its countries inside the union. The language, cultural and historical barriers that have challenged Europe for almost 2000 years will be still intact for some time to come preventing the Europe from seizing world dominance. In Japan, their population is contracting and ageing. This will make it difficult for it ever to become more than regional powerhouse militarily while still remaining in economic powerhouse globally. The other two serious contenders for the most powerful country in the world, Indonesia and Brazil are both geographically quite isolated, linguistically challenged and have no significant history of military intervention or dominance. They both are rich enough to become world powers. Both have serious social issues that will also preclude them from successfully seeking a dominant position on the world stage. No single country or group can do what the US does individually and most of them aren't foolish enough to even try to replicate this.  

In my opinion, the US will remain the dominant global power for many decades to come and beyond so what are your thoughts? Will the US always be the global superpower? Will any other nation ever overtake them? Let me know in the comments section below.

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