Top Ten World Powers

[KrazyHorse]

Bull****.



Go look up the numbers. California outputs about a trillion dollars a year.

US as whole is 10 trillion
China is 5-6 trillion
Japan is 3.5 trillion
Germany is 2 trillion
France, UK, Italy, Russia are all in 1.4-1.6 trillion range

EDIT: this is for ted

[KrazyHorse]

Are we not using PPP? That could change things....

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
2) UK

Again, where does the UK have diplomatic influence? It's not even top-tier in the EU...

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Again, where does the UK have diplomatic influence? It's not even top-tier in the EU...

UK is influential in its former colonies, it is influencial around the world in terms of investment, it is associated with all EU military initiatives (surprisingly), and it is probably the only country that has a marginal influence on Washington's decisions, making UK effectively "first mate" in the US-led world.

France has similar qualities, but has an autonomous foreign policy, and has much more leverage in Europe due to its alliance with Germany. Both countries are competing for the same economical-diplomatic rank. But in the end, they'll become irrelevant as China and India rise (and Russia comes back from the dead), and they'll need to work together to rise to power status again.

[KrazyHorse]

UK has a much greater diplo influence than any euro country other than France.

Nobody wonders what Germany or Italy will think. People do wonder what France and the UK will think.

Actually, a lot more people care what the UK thinks than what China thinks.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Again, where does the UK have diplomatic influence? It's not even top-tier in the EU...

Commonwealth nations.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Actually, a lot more people care what the UK thinks than what China thinks.

You sure? There are a lot of people in China and India.

[notyoueither]

All the lovely pink bits. Those are us. Enough lovely pink bits in fact, to be able to tell the Germans to stuff it when no one else was left who cared or could do anything about it.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
Commonwealth nations.

Most Commonwealth nations were against the invasion of Iraq, though.

[The Vagabond]

1) USA
2-5) China, France, Russia, UK (in no particular order, except for the alphabetical one)
6) Germany
7) Japan
No one else deserves to be in the top ten.

[notyoueither]

One Flag, One Fleet, One Empire!

[Ben Kenobi]

India

Strange Queen Victoria would be the Empress of India, eh? India's a part of the Commonwealth.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by notyoueither
One Flag, One Fleet, One Empire!

[Ben Kenobi]

As for Canadians not stepping up for the Yanks in Iraq, we tend to blame French influence.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Most Commonwealth nations were against the invasion of Iraq, though.

We leave the old bird to go her own way. We turn up when the issue is important.

The Aussies are having a problem with the apron strings though. They seem to have gotten them entangled with that strange uncle.