User blog comment:Ty Rezac/most powerful countries./@comment-32656-20120221014206/@comment-1738490-20120222161015

Politics is the main weapon of any country to win a war, more than battle themselves. For example, the vietnamese lost the war in battles, but they anyway suceeded in make the americans retreet. An american politic victory can be Cold War, that USA won without declaring formal war to the USSR.