how has the usa become a hyperpower after the collapse of USSR
2007-11-02 07:52:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2007-11-02 08:05:39 · update #1
First I beleave that calling us a hyper ower is a bit of an exageration. A dangerous one at that.
After the fall of the USSR there was a huge power vacuum. The USSR had provided a great deal of support to their puppet states for decades. Of course the price for said assistance was particularly high...
When the USSR these states and the world around them was left in a vacuum. There was no longer a penalty for going outside the soviet sphere of influence, but at the same time there was no loger a low cost supply of materials flowing fromthe motherland.
Today, China and India are flexing their economic muscles and in the case of China also flexing (however cautiously) the military muscle.
In the Americas, Cuba is still really from the fall of the USSR, however Venezuella with Hugo Chavez is seeking to fill that void. With their current oil wealth they have a few decades to get things straight. Sadly for his people Chavez is using the oil money to build up the military rather than built a socio-economic infrastructure that could survive once the oil wealth is gone.
The USA while a poer economic force will be surpassed economicaly by China and India before long. With the lessening of our relative global economic strngth our world influence will also diminish. We'll likely never be a weaker state, but we will likely no longer dominate world economics.
2007-11-02 08:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by Jeff Engr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*We have become a good influence of the rest of the world. Most other countries can trust the USA.
*We have military presence around the world.
*Our capitalism economy is top in the world
*Our citizens have national pride
*Needless to say, our military is superior throughout the war (I'm not saying everyone else sucks, tho)
*We have a great government
*We can get any resource anytime.
*Not only do we strengthen ourselves, we support other countries
There are many more things that contribute to the USA being a hyperpower, but these are the basics.
2007-11-04 12:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by joshuabigler 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We were a superpower even before the USSR's collapse. We were fundamental in forming key treaties and alliances, such as NATO and the United Nations, so obviously we're going to set them up to benefit ourselves. However, the USSR set up similar alliances with communist countries that opposed our own. So logically, when the USSR fell, and their alliances crumbled along with the USSR, we'd be the only huge superpower left as there wasn't a country that was as dominating as the United States.
2007-11-02 08:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By default of no other country preparing for war and the decline of quality of life and increase in working hours of the American worker.
2007-11-02 07:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because....THIS COUNTRY ROCKS!
2007-11-02 07:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by rance42 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are the best.
2007-11-02 08:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cause were freakin unstopable.
2007-11-02 07:54:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋