User blog comment:Ty Rezac/Superpowers/@comment-83.4.224.233-20141229234725

there are 6 great powers - no superpowers, because there can be only 2 superpowers on the world, and finally - `1 hyperpower. Like it was in XIX/XX century - after British Empire's - world significance decline as hyperpower, there emerged (or re-eemerged): USA, Germany, Russia, France. And these great empires were main rivals in `1 th and 2nd world wars. But after 1945  we had twqo superpowers : USA and USSR