All countries recruit young men and women to go to war. They die and their families hope against hope that they died for a higher purpose. So many do not die for a higher cause but just for some egotistical narcissist, megalomaniac with greedy fantasies of the possibilities of gaining power, money and delusions of grandeur and glory. Can Russia be considered a superpower? While the military and political capacity of Russia remains undoubted, its economic influence lags behind.Natalya Nosova Politicians and experts (of sorts) like to play with this loaded term, but many disagree, for instance, Vladimir Putin. In 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the U.S. the world’s only superpower. “America is a great power, the only remaining superpower, I guess… and we admit that we’re ready to work with the United States,” said Putin during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. So, we can safely say that Russia isn’t a superpower, right? Let’s look at other opinions. Some ...
The great strength of American capitalism is also its great weakness, namely, its extremely high weapons productivity. A number of factors have produced increases in productivity, like, the mechanization of the production process that got under way in England as early as the 18th century. In the early 20th century, then, American industrialists made a contribution in the form of automatiion. ..Amor Patriae