USA vs. USSR: Superpower Comparison

A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power.

Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School), defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemon."

It was a term first applied in 1944 to the United States, the Soviet Union, and the British Empire. Following World War II, as the British Empire transformed itself into the Commonwealth and its territories became independent, the Soviet Union and the United States generally came to be regarded as the only two superpowers, and confronted each other in the Cold War.

After the Cold War, the most common belief held that only the United States fulfilled the criteria to be considered a superpower, although it is a matter of debate whether it is a hegemon or if it is a besieged global power. China, the European Union, India, and Russia are also thought to have the potential of achieving superpower status within the 21st century.

Others doubt the existence of superpowers in the post Cold War era altogether, stating that today's complex global marketplace and the rising interdependency between the world's nations has made the concept of a superpower an idea of the past and that the world is now multipolar.

Wikipedia Superpower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

Wikipedia Cold War:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

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[Armenianemperor]

America sucks

[SieghartzBR]

1:27 there should be hamburgers istead of fruits

[fcfqb]

we won the cold war cuz we had reagan and his awsome hair lol vs baldo with the birth mark can't beat that

[MODERNGAMES2]

If Soviet didn't make it's own nuclear bomb in 1949

Then USA would have destroyed USSR

[ibranar15]

Holy crap... I feel so sorry that ussr was destroyed by one bold son of a bitch with crap-spot on his head.. present russia kinda sucks

[CSSZombieVideos]

@MrWinnerwinnerwinner lol... i understand your opinion, but dont troll ffs...

[MrWinnerwinnerwinner]

@Custer0 To be jealous sucks I bet. I love the way america drives you crazy it shows me we ARE the the best HAHAHAHA! U.S.A#1

[radkodimitrov999000]

СССР FOREVER

[Custer0]

press 3:55 to skip to the good part

[Land070696]

@SaidenFiction соси молча маленький американский ублюдок

[DylanWFilmsLA]

@SieghartzBR and an xbox instead the baseball stuff

[SaidenFiction]

You stupid dogs! USA will rule the world!!! All hail our mighty American empire!!