Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!
ModernBourbon Democrat
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« on: June 30, 2021, 02:26:40 AM » |
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Can't be hassled to do a full list but a few things ordinal things I think most of the lists here get wrong:
* France should be third, above Russia and Germany. Germany is larger and more influential within the EU and Russia has a larger military and more nukes but France has a huge amount of real power in the Francophone world, specifically Africa where they support dozens of local dictators for benefits like cheap uranium for their power plants. They also have an aircraft carrier capable of actually projecting power further across the globe than any country excluding the US with the possible exception of China.
* India should be pretty close to the UK, with the much larger population and military being compensated by a comparative lack of economic development and power projection, and above most of Europe (excluding the aforementioned top powers of France, Russia and Germany). Then Israel, which is able to punch disproportionately above its weight class and is an exceptional case in terms of having an unusually developed military and intelligence network for its size.
* Next would be regional and rising powers: Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Nigeria, Brazil. Followed by Japan (which would by much higher on the list if their political and military influence wasn't intentionally reduced by their constitution), then mid sized European (Spain, Italy, Sweden, Poland), Latin American (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina), African (Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa) and Asian (Vietnam, South Korea, Philippines, Saudi)
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