How much power does the United States have to shape world events?
November 6th, 2008 | by admin |
longhaired freaky person asked:
If your answer is “not much”, can you explain why the U.S. President and Secretary of State talk as if they rule the world?
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If your answer is “not much”, can you explain why the U.S. President and Secretary of State talk as if they rule the world?
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5 Responses to “How much power does the United States have to shape world events?”
By Curtis on Nov 7, 2008 | Reply
The USA has more power then any other country to shape world events.
By Randall E on Nov 9, 2008 | Reply
It’s impossible to tell. We don’t know what happens behind the scenes - bits and pieces get declassified 40 years later.
They have to talk tough on Russia - and I’m sure that other nations are as well - I’m sure in England the press covers Gordon Brown saying it, and in the US the press covers Bush and Rice saying it.
By nigelshiftright on Nov 12, 2008 | Reply
We have economic power but we are limited politically, financially and morally from exercising very much military power; also our ground forces are in very bad shape as we are stretched thin in useless foreign adventures.
The more a country brags about what it can do, probably the less capable it is of doing it. American intelligence was quite surprised at Russia’s recent move but Russia was certainly capable of doing it.
Right now Russia is turning the tables on us. It’s “payback time”. We tried to bring Russia down economically in the 1980s and now Russia has the wealth to do the same to us—she has oil and natural resources in abundance, while we squander ours.
Not a good situation.
By IG-88 on Nov 14, 2008 | Reply
too much ,way too much they are planning to take over everything.
By southwind on Nov 17, 2008 | Reply
Officially?…….. >
Strategic Nuclear Weapons: 7,300
Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons: 4,700-11,700
Total Nuclear Weapons: 12,000-19,000
With an average kiloton yield of 200kt.
That comes to approximately 3,100,000 kilotons of power. (The bombs dropped on Japan were 0.5kt yields)
I would say that is a lot of power to influence…wouldn’t you?