Nobody fully appreciates exactly how far ahead of the rest of the world the US is.

The US is the highest GDP economy in the world in the present day, and based on how the rest of the world is doing, the US is set to remain the highest performing economy in the world for decades to come. The US currently has the highest GDP, one of the highest GDP per capita, a strong and healthy GDP growth rate, a stable population growth rate, and a population that ages far slower than the rest of the world in terms of Median age. By every metric the US is set to remain the greatest power in the world for this entire century and beyond, and is likely to make it to the top 5 and possibly even the top 3 nation states in terms of GDP per capita very soon. US power doesn't just end there however, for there is a vast Ocean sized gap between the US and the rest of the world that most people haven't quite learned to appreciate. This article is meant to help people appreciate exactly how far ahead of other nation states the US is.

1.1) Europe :

The European Union is a trade and political union of nation states that hasn't yet fully federalized. In terms of population the EU has a far larger population than the US, but otherwise is set to decline demographically unless it keeps expanding. The US became a federal government in 1789, which means the EU as a political system of governance is more than 235+ years behind the US. In terms of GDP ( nominal ), the EU is more than a generation ( 30 years ) behind the US. Same for GDP per capita income. For the average American to move to the EU would mean to literally move back to their father's time in terms of annual income, not even factoring in the additional taxes in the EU. More realistically, taking into account that the US isn't just going to stop growing in current year, it would take multiple generations for the EU to catch up to the US even if it began to grow at a higher rate than the US.

1.2) China:

China comes the closest to matching the US on the international economic stage. China currently has a higher PPP GDP than the US. In terms of Nominal GDP, if China continued to grow at present rates and the US froze in place, China could catch up within 10 years. However, China's GDP growth is actually slowing down year on year and once again we find ourselves faced with a nation state that came within 1-2 decades of reaching the US economically then began to slip back again. The US has a steadily increasing population while China has a negative population growth rate. Immigrants move to the US while people leave China. Technologically the cutting edge chips made in China are permanently stuck being 10 years behind the US and it is likely that as the standards of trade secrets of South Korea rises over time that China will get left further behind in terms of technology when compared to the US. In terms of GDP per capita, China is 45+ years behind the US in current year, but more realistically with the slowing GDP growth rate, is more than 90 years behind the US in current year.

1.3) Future planning of the US:

The US has for almost a century been the single major world power. In its dominance it has had enough funds to plan for all probabilities and events including assuming enemy forces being 2-10x more competent than anticipated and planning accordingly. Assuming an alien invasion is possible and planning accordingly. Planning for zombies. There is not a single contingency that the US government does not have a plan for. This puts any other nation state that is fighting against the US at a disadvantage, as the other nation state may be planning to fight against the US at its best, but the US has its military prepared based on plans taking into account the other side fighting at their best, the US side fricking up half their instructions, and God himself joining in on the fight on the side of the anti-US faction. The US is over prepared to say the least. This can be seen in the adaptability of their economy, their highly efficient logistics, and their ability to develop new alliances decade on decade without giving up their previous alliances. The US for all intents and purposes is future proofed and there is no way to defeat them as no other nation state has had the opportunity to plan as long as the US has, nor the funds to study and implement as many contingencies as the US has. Add in the fact that the US is forced to learn from their defeats and we see a nation state that cannot be defeated in the same way twice.

1.4) US military might:

The US military remains the strongest in the world. It is a military that has had large scale combat experience in recent times. Has some of the best equipment in the world, and has its protective armor capabilities keeping up with whichever bullet size they find being used in 3rd world battlegrounds. They got troop transport vehicles that can walk over landmines without any casualties and got drones that can fire death from the sky across entire bases without being seen by the enemy. The US military in terms of technology is generations ahead of the average military to say the least. While the European military at times come close in terms of military technology used in tanks and jets, US tech is still considered a generation ahead while being decades older, and doesn't have as many logistical and performance issues as the European equipment today. The US remains far ahead of the EU in military capabilities primarily because of them actually fighting wars, unlike the EU which never expected their ground forces to actually be used any time soon.

In previous years the Russians were considered the second most powerful military in the world. This myth has been disproved with the occurrence of the Ukraine war where they are being kept at a stalemate while more Russian territories are being taken over, with older Nato equipment and restrictions placed on Ukraine as to where they are allowed to strike. After Russia the strongest military in the world is considered to be China, a military with limited combat experience which hasn't really been blooded in a generation.

Taking these factors into account, we can consider the US military to be at least 30+ years ahead of the 2nd most powerful military in the world at all times due to a combination of more actual combat experience, better logistics, preparedness, military tech advantage.

Conclusion:

The US is at the very least 30+ years ahead of whichever country ends up as number 2. More realistically the US is generations ahead of the rest of the world and this gap will remain throughout this century. For the Average 3rd world citizen to immigrate to the US is the equivalent of traveling a century into the future. The gap between the developed world and the US is greater than the gap between a middle income nation state and the developed world. If the developed world is AAA economies then the US is a AAAAA economy.

The US is the future and where all of humanity will be moving to as population collapse depopulates nation states across the world.

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