Most powerful countrey in the world [POLL]

Most powerful countries in 2003/04.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/wo...ntries-map.gif

Go Japan!

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Originally Posted by Neversoft

Most powerful countries in 2003/04.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/wo...ntries-map.gif

Go Japan!

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Map not to scale? LOL NO **** SHERLOCK.

Where's Russia and how has it decided the world's most powerful countries in that?

I dont see how russia can really be excluded from the top 10 on the map.

In responce to economic power also, places like the united arab emerates etc have massive powers below the surface, as has been proved in the past, controling the oil suppy does have the very real potentional to bring giants like the US to its knees.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

Where's Russia and how has it decided the world's most powerful countries in that?

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Well looking over different websites claiming to know the most powerful countries in the world, they all have different lists. So I doubt any of these are 100% accurate. This guy seems to have the clearest idea.

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Originally Posted by parasite

I voted UK just to be patriotic.

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Same :P

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Originally Posted by Mr.Sam

china have 2,255,000 active troops we have 187,970 - they could literally poke us to death.

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But not really though because America are strong allies of ours :8

As other's have said, the British army still has modernised land, naval and air forced. Also Undertaker said, the British Empire is something to be proud of :p

look, tbh. i didnt think china was that far up. end of. dont like it, ill close the thread.

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Originally Posted by sierk

From what I heard the French army is a bit of a joke, it hasn't been modernised and a lot of its helicopters for example don't fly anymore.
I think in Europe Britain is the only country that still has all the three army departments (land, naval and airforce) modernised, well-equipted and fully functional.
Of course they need that to defend these small useless islands they got all over the world :P

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Britain is also using old planes and we weren't equipped at all for Iraq.

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Originally Posted by sierk

I don't think a country's power should be measured by its army alone. Economical power is more important in the long run. I think China is already more powerful than the US, maybe they could even bankrupt the United States if they want.
Atomic bombs don't help you much when your economy goes bankrupt, I think Ahmadinejad the Iranian president said so much recently, and gave the USSR (which collapsed in 1991) as example.
The only difference I see between China and the US is that China stays pretty much to its own region from a military point of view, and doesn't send its armies to attack other countries, even though they easily could.

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The list I gave shows in all aspects how powerful each country is, America is in most of them so it clearly is the superpower of the world. China still economically isn't bigger than the United States because it's economey doesn't have as muhc affect on the rest of the worlds (see recent headlines with the Credit crunch)