Gandalv@Microinteracti1
American superpower status was never about aircraft carriers or nuclear warheads. It was about relationships and geography. No nation is a superpower alone. The Soviet Union was a superpower because it controlled half of Europe, its resources, its armies, its airspace. The moment those countries walked out the door, Russia became what it always was underneath. Just Russia. Large, ugly, and alone.
America built something different. Thirty-one of the world’s wealthiest democracies, voluntarily, collectively amplifying one nation’s reach into every corner of the planet. That is what made America a superpower. Not the bombs. The allies. Without them you have no forward bases, no friendly airspace, no intelligence network, no collective weight. Today a country with a 17-hour flight to the nearest problem. Which is, with the greatest respect, basically another Brazil.
Europe was the rocket fuel that powered two superpowers. First pumped into the Soviet machine, then into the American one. And now, Europe is keeping that fuel for itself. Russia collapsed and the Sovjet Union collapsed.
Russia lost its empire when the satellites left. America is being and idiot. Same result. Just with worse timing. Meanwhile Europe is becoming something it has not been in a very long time. The point.
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