User blog comment:Ty Rezac/Superpowers/@comment-1630894-20120709204715/@comment-1630894-20120716030435

And your support for the US falling from superpowerhood in a couple decades, despite leading in nuclear weapons and military power and proficency, being third in population without a massive overpopulation crisis or demographic collapse in the future, having a far higher standard of living than all of their "competition" listed above (except for parts of the EU that range slightly higher or lower depending on what scale you use), and having a larger economy than any single nation in the world, is? Even if China beats the US (and their victory could indeed be temporary), that doesn't mean we have "fallen". Especially since they have 5 times as many people as us, so to beat us by GDP per capita China would have to have an economy 5 times the size of America. Other than current economic and social problems which are no where near as bad as many contemporary problems in the "competition" above, I see no grounds to suggest that the United States is heading towards any collapse. Furthermore, our economy is so large that if it collapses, so will the economies of the rest of the world.