[FWB]

Originally Posted by ninty9

The European Union is a superpower?

Yep. An economy almost the size of the US, a more stable currency (for now ) and huge political clout, probably more so than the US. But that's really cutting things short.

There's actually a great article on how it's use of civilian power, as oppossed to military, fuels its superpower status, but I can't find it online. For those interested its called "Europe, the quiet superpower, is the equal of the US" by Harvard professor Andrew Moravcsik. It was published in Newsweek a few months ago.

[intrestedviewer]

i think empires or um big superpowers collapse because they start making big weapons, big heavy slow weapons. Take Spain. When it was allmighty it had huge gallions. These things were huge. Then came uh england with its small ships and guess what? in the end england beats em. How bout the third reich? BIg and better tanks. The king tiger tank didnt work in the west. they were so big and heavy they would get stuck and would get flanked. Big countrys shouldnt use big weapons angel:

[Captain Bunny]

Originally Posted by intrestedviewer

Big countrys shouldnt use big weapons angel:

Bill Clinton used his very small weapon and look how much trouble he got into for that.