What are the most powerful and influential countries?

[faded glory]

no it isnt. Even when you add eastern Europes GDP to the EU, you fall short.

[Bereta_Eder]

yes it is. no need to add anyone.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Finland at number 10? It's only very small.

And it's UK not England. Damn, does no one ever get that right?

Do the folks in England care? Or is it only the Scots? Ned

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MrFun
Maybe Cuba has ambitions to conquer the Carribean islands, and create a unified, Carribean empire.

Of course, the United States would put a stop to that.

cough, cough

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Pekka


Budget may be small.. but the quality of men is high. It's all on your mind, we're actually many times more than 5 million, don't buy that cia fact book crap!
Plus, when you take the batteries away from high-tech armies, they're disabled .

And yes, we're filled with oil. We just hide it well and don't tell about it to the rest of the world, as we're ruling all without you knowing it.

Well we have oil and coal. Shame we never mine any of the latter. There was a politician who said something like 'How, living in an island built on coal and surrounded by fish, can we have a coal and fishing crisis?'

Yeah, our military probably packs a lot of punch. Fairly large, yet high tech, with some of the best special units in the world. The Americans use us all the time for these I believe there is an expression amongst the Russian special services Spetznatz which reads 'We're not the SAS' And the SBS are supposed to be a lot better than the SAS too.

Don't mess

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Ned


Do the folks in England care? Or is it only the Scots? Ned

I am English, but I still like the correct labelling of my country, or the parts of my country

[Provost Harrison]

Apparently the UK is number 4 in overall economic terms. I would expect US, Japan and Germany are ahead.

[Ecthy]

Yup, and next would be France, Russia is far down the list... though there are several listings

http://64.246.32.51/~admin1/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37859

[Ned]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


I am English, but I still like the correct labelling of my country, or the parts of my country

Calling the residents of your island English is like calling the residents of the late Roman Empire "Byzantines." However, there is no one left to defend the name of the Roman Empire.

BTW, no one in the U.S. says they are from the U.K. They say they are English, Scottish, Welsh, etc.

Ned

[The Vagabond]

(Note: within each group, countries are given in alphabetic order)

Hyperpowers: USA

Superpowers: China, EU, Russia

Great Powers: France, Germany, India, Japan, UK

Other influential contries: Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Irak, Iran, Israel, Italy, N.Korea, S.Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey

[Ned]

Those of you from the EU, do you think the EU should have its own armed forces and ban and independent command structure?

Ned

[Ecthy]

I think that as a person with a doubtful amount of wisdom you should stop using the image of a wise-by-definition character as an avatar icon.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
I think that as a person with a doubtful amount of wisdom you should stop using the image of a wise-by-definition character as an avatar icon.

Ecthelion, Why don't you have an avatar? Ned

On further thought, try making one from the emperor Hadrian.

[Cookie Monster]

Probably it's too late to post my opinion but here goes.

The most powerful nation on earth is Israel.

Israel has a superpower dancing at it's fingertips.

Israel has a direct communication link to God.

Israel has the power to plunge the world into world war.



My vote for the most powerful nation on earth is Isreal.

[Natan]

I'd say the pecking order is:
1) USA
2) Russia
3) China
4) the EU (no single nation in it wields "most powerful" influence)
5) India