do you think the USA is still a super power in the world?

Answer 1

No I think they are getting all of their instructions from Mexico.

Answer 2

Nothing has changed to think the US is anything but the #1 super power. That's not to say that Russia and China aren't after the title. Individually, they are not a big threat, but together they would be a serious force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, being #1 is kind of like being the fastest gun in the old west. There is always someone who will challenge that or want to compete against it.

The US is not only the #1 super power, it is also equipped to manage two and a half wars at any given time. This does not mean that it has enough infantry ready to go at a moments notice, but even then it wouldn't take that long to have an adequate number of boots on the ground to sustain, until it is or was at full force. Incidentally, Iraq is considered a half war, by the powers to be.

Answer 3

The Price of Greatness is Responsibility

The price of greatness is responsibility. If the people of the United States had continued in a mediocre station, struggling with the wilderness, absorbed in their own affairs, and a factor of no consequence in the movement of the world, they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans: but one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilised world without being involved in its problems, without being convulsed by its agonies and inspired by its causes.

If this has been proved in the past, as it has been, it will become indisputable in the future. The people of the United States cannot escape world responsibility. Although we live in a period so tumultuous that little can be predicted, we may be quite sure that this process will be intensified with every forward step the United States make in wealth and in power. Not only are the responsibilities of this great Republic growing, but the world over which they range is itself contracting in relation to our powers of locomotion at a positively alarming rate.

We have learned to fly. What prodigious changes are involved in that new accomplishment! Man has parted company with his trusty friend the horse and has sailed into the azure with the eagles, eagles being represented by the infernal (loud laughter) - I mean internal -combustion engine. Where, then, are those broad oceans, those vast staring deserts? They are shrinking beneath our very eyes. Even elderly Parliamentarians like myself are forced to acquire a high degree of mobility.

But to the youth of America, as to the youth of all the Britains, I say "You cannot stop." There is no halting-place at this point. We have now reached a stage in the journey where there can be no pause. We must go on. It must be world anarchy or world order.

Partial Speech to Harvard, Sir Winston Churchill

Answer 4

We're the only super power left in the world militarily speaking. Who else is there? China doesnt have mobilization capabilities and relies on an outdated submarine fleet that for the most part was purchased from Russia. Some of which are still diesel powered. Russias sub fleet is deteriorating in dry dock. Although they have mobilization capabilities and a vast array of nuculear weapons (as does China) thats hardly a defanition of a super power. Many people dont realze that one of Americas biggest deterants is our fleet of boomers that we park off of coastal waters.

Answer 5

Its only beause other countries make America a super power but that ended at least 30 years ago but everyone in the G8 is a superpower,now America is just a super jerk and they can no longer say that they are a superpower.

Answer 6

It is only a military superpower. Much of its commercial and industrial power is now in the hands of the chinese, russians and arabs because the US is close to bankrupcy. This is unsustainable and will eventually lead to the collapse of the American Empire.

Answer 7

yes i agree that it is only a military power. Everyone knows that America's economy is close to bankruptcy now, if its debt to china is recalled now, tough luck economy will collapse and bam a third world economy.

Answer 8

OF COURSE...THOUGH WE WILL SOON BE RESIDING IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA AS ALL THE ILLEGAL SPANISH THINK THEY CAN TAKE OVER AND MAKE A LARGER PLACE TO LIVE AND DESTROY ...SO THE ONLY PROBLEM WE WILL FACE IS HAVING THESE ILLEGALS CLIMBING BACK INTO THE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
IM NOT KIDDING......

Answer 9

Maybe more like a supra power these days.

Answer 10

yes we are but we are not the lone superpower anymore.... think china and russia even though russia isnt an economic superpower they are still a military superpower