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Originally posted by shima
Why does nobody think about China or Russia? These aren't superpowers anymore?
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China hasn't been a superpower for a long while. They are working on it but have a long ways to go. Pitfalls? Currency devaluation? Political climate?
Russia. Lots of nukes. Traditional forces falling behind. US has moved very far ahead in power projection with a dozen aircaft carriers to a pretty non-functional, non-existent group in RU. The Communist Soviet Union was willing to spend a huge share of its budget on military expenditures chasing the US. During the 1970s the Soviet Union was producing twice as many aircraft and submarines as the US and more than 5x as many tanks. Transitional Russia is not anywhere near keeping up. Some say that was the final straw that broke the USSR's back. Ronald Reagan intentionally pursued such a policy of massive military expenditures in order to force bankruptcy of the Soviet System. This idea had been stated earlier by JFK.