Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:50:06 AM
"Whatever sins the United States has committed, whatever harm the Americans have done, there is no comparison between America and the two other powers – Russia and China. The East and West differ in history, politics and culture."
The ABCs of Global Power
by J. R. Nyquist
Russia and the United States have the world’s largest nuclear arsenals. Both countries have powerful armies, fleets and air forces. The same can be said for China, as well, which stands as the world’s third most powerful country. The three countries are large, in land area and population. Together they possess a quarter of the world’s surface land area, almost a third of the world’s population and over 90 percent of the world’s most powerful and advanced weapons. As the greatest of these three powers, the United States is dominant. If this domination suddenly came to an end (due to a financial crash) the current alliance between Russia and China would quickly fill the vacuum left by the collapse of American power.
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