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Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

  • Yes, the United States will remain on top with no real challenges to it's position.

    Votes: 16 23.9%

  • The US will still be a superpower, but will share it with other countries.

    Votes: 24 35.8%

  • The United States will recede from it's status as a superpower and be replaced by another country.

    Votes: 12 17.9%

  • The US will recede as a superpower, but no other country will be able to fill that spot.

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • Other (Please Explain)

    Votes: 5 7.5%

  • I really want some eggs, bacon, hashbrown, butter toast, waffles, syrup, and some OJ.

    Votes: 7 10.4%
  • Total voters
    67
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Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

Feel free to explain your choice if you want.
 
I hope not.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?
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Perhaps, as long as we keep spending $700 Billion per year on the military.

However, it is unknown how we would fare should an enemy hit us first with a massive cyber-decapitation strike.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

Feel free to explain your choice if you want.
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China.
 
As long as Trump is President the answer is yes.
 
It will for the foreseeable future.

As much as China is flexing its muscle, it’ll have to settle for regional hegemony and even then, only to a certain extent.

Russia is posing threats in some areas, some very serious that are not being addressed like Cyberspace (that goes for China and others as well) and the arctic, but it is literally a dying land, it’s population is dying off and it’s economy would not be able to sustain any level of growth in the future to come close to being able to ever spend as significantly as it wants to on its military adventures.

Both have a problem with real power projection no matter what way you slice it although it is fair to say that in the overall geopolitical game, China could make significant strides with its belt and road initiatives while Washington Presidential candidates debate **** size
 
Jetboogieman said:
It will for the foreseeable future.

As much as China is flexing its muscle, it’ll have to settle for regional hegemony and even then, only to a certain extent.

Russia is posing threats in some areas, some very serious that are not being addressed like Cyberspace (that goes for China and others as well) and the arctic, but it is literally a dying land, it’s population is dying off and it’s economy would not be able to sustain any level of growth in the future to come close to being able to ever spend as significantly as it wants to on its military adventures.

Both have a problem with real power projection no matter what way you slice it although it is fair to say that in the overall geopolitical game, China could make significant strides with its belt and road initiatives while Washington Presidential candidates debate **** size
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the lack of American education in the areas of science and math is pretty alarming. a new discovery could turn the tables pretty quickly.
 
Yes, but with badly damaged status among our allies. With a POTUS who insists on insulting allies and snuggling up to thuggish and brutal dictators, our allies have become very wary of us, no longer sure they can trust us with sensitive intelligence. Trump outed an Israeli operative long embedded within Syria's state forces before he'd been in office for even two months, so who can blame them if they no longer share information?

It's going to take years to repair the damage Trump is doing to our standing in the world.
 
for the record: I don't know so I voted for the eggs and bacon.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Perhaps, as long as we keep spending $700 Billion per year on the military.

However, it is unknown how we would fare should an enemy hit us first with a massive cyber-decapitation strike.
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That right there is where we are currently NOT a superpower.
 
Idiometer said:
Yes, but with badly damaged status among our allies. With a POTUS who insists on insulting allies and snuggling up to thuggish and brutal dictators, our allies have become very wary of us, no longer sure they can trust us with sensitive intelligence. Trump outed an Israeli operative long embedded within Syria's state forces before he'd been in office for even two months, so who can blame them if they no longer share information?

It's going to take years to repair the damage Trump is doing to our standing in the world.
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I don't think it will ever be repaired this generation. I think the world looks at America like a mental patient. How do you do diplomacy with a country that is one election cycle away from electing a mentally incompetent authoritarian?
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?

Feel free to explain your choice if you want.
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I definitely feel America is in decline and one day, the robber barons who have spent the last half century or so looting it via lobbying and campaign finance will eventually run it into the ground unless something drastically changes the federal political landscape.

That leaves China, and, hopefully by this point, a superstate, unified EU in opposition, as the two remaining world powers.
 
For starters nobody else wants the job. Second America is a long way ahead if anyone did. Since nobody truly wants to try that hard to catch up, this is unlikely.

China will become a very powerful military - able to challenge the US in its sphere of influence, since its goal is protect its turf and avoid the invasions and humiliations of the 19th and 20th centuries - but it doesn't want to run the show, and doesn't have the respect and admiration to do so anyway. BTW russia can and does already do this, but it is nowhere near a superpower, just the major regional player in its corner. So it will be with China.

So America will remain so unless it chooses to give up that role. Since stepping down means more chaos, it likely won't willingly rescind.
 
In terms of military the US will remain on top for the foreseeable future. When it comes to the economy and influence, China does pose a threat and could surpass the US, however I personally think they are more likely to implode before they get close to the US in those terms. The European Union is an economic rival as well close to on par with the US (will be interesting to see how things change post Brexit), but they pose virtually no real military threat. Russia is declining, their population is shrinking and they are a nation that hit their peak and are now sliding down. In my book China is the only "real" threat, and they are a major threat due to the ruthless and evil nature of its government. Lord help us if China ever surpassed the US and established a new global order.
 
To be clear, I have no idea what sort of duration we're talking about when we say 'foreseeable future', but I do think the current trajectory of the country is ultimately unsustainable regardless of what that happens to be defined as.
 
Surrealistik said:
To be clear, I have no idea what sort of duration we're talking about when we say 'foreseeable future', but I do think the current trajectory of the country is ultimately unsustainable regardless of what that happens to be defined as.
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Let's say 20-30 years.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Let's say 20-30 years.
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Probably not in that case; I think China might well manage to become a rival superpower by then, but I don't think the US would have lost its superpower status at that time.
 
I voted other:

If Trump is reelected, chalk it up and call it a good 70 year run of being a world superpower.
If the Democrats can win the presidency and senate, I think the loser generation of the boomers will slowly die off and we repair our world status.
If the Democrats can win the presidency but not the senate for the next two elections then we simply delay the loss of our status.
 
You need a response "Yes, as long as a Democrat doesn't become President". :cool:
 
Winston said:
the lack of American education in the areas of science and math is pretty alarming. a new discovery could turn the tables pretty quickly.
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I doubt you know the half of it

America's High-Tech STEM Crisis

The leading competitor is China, whose political leadership understands only too well how important STEM leadership is for global leadership. The World Economic Forum calculates that China had at least 4.7 million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 million as of 2017; the U.S. pulls in at third at 568,000. That puts us about equal with India for STEM grads per population (1:516 ratio for Indians and 1:573 for Americans); but well behind China’s 1:293 ratio.


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How bad is the shortage of American students? According to the non-partisan National Foundation for American Policy, in 2017 foreign nationals accounted for 81% of electrical engineering majors and grad students in this country. Foreign students make up three quarters of the majors and grad students in industrial engineering; 62% in mechanical engineering; 55%, or more than half, of those studying materials and metallurgic engineering.
As for computer science, the vital crucible for America’s future in areas such as cyber and AI, American students make up barely 21% of the student body.
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Note the majority of foreign students in US universities are from China, followed by India
 
Bullseye said:
You need a response "Yes, as long as a Democrat doesn't become President". :cool:
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Then explain why your Republican president is the one undermining the US.
 
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