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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These are the three regions of the world that are losing 0.2-0.3% of their population each year at this point and their population decline is only going to continue on for the foreseeable future.

East Europe and South Europe are the worst hit as they are losing populations even after being open to immigrants. When the world collapse occurs from the global population decline, these three regions of the world will be hit first.

Not a single one of these regions is in a position to see their numbers rise again, if any of them did, the other two would be able to recover as well.

Even sending mass immigration waves of Indians to these regions of the world will not fix the problem as there aren't enough Indians on the planet to replace the entire populations of these territories taken together.

Similarly the entire population of Africa would not be able to fill these areas either.

That is to say, 2.12 billion of the world's population is set on a continual decline that is irreversible as long as the rest of the developed world exists.

The only possible way that the global populations are kept balanced across the world at the ratios similar to what exists today would be if either India never goes below the replacement rate or the whole world becomes without borders and opens up fully to African immigration letting in as many as are willing with zero restrictions in the future.

The Russian-Ukraine war does not hold any true relevance for the world as when the war is over both the nation states will be in a state of enough damage that none of them will ever fully recover to current day levels in terms of influence, population, and strength. Already, Ukraine is winning against Russia by selling its future in body bags. Russia is holding onto its war by having emptied its prisons and rural landscapes, with a Moscow now under fire from Ukrainian attacks. Before this for multiple generations East Europe was already in decline when it came to population, the end result is that the population collapse of Eastern Europe has been sped up to rates where nation states can disappear.

When we look at Southern Europe, the worst hit is Italy, which appears to be a sinking boat that all its youth are actively working day and night to escape. Spain was the one large nation in the region that was still able to keep a positive population growth rate but it too has gone down to zero and is well set to fall into rapid decline. The only thing that could save the population of Southern Europe would be mass immigration waves of the variety that its people are not ready for. Especially Italy whose people were more than happy to vote in their current party on an anti immigrant stance.

The case for the decline of East Asia is well known, as East Asia has been in the news media of the west for generations being talked of how they were set to fail and have their populations die out under the current trajectory, while ignoring how the Europeans were themselves aging in a similar direction. Japan was the first old man of East Asia. Followed by South Korea and China. If China had never implemented the one child policy it might have made it unscathed through the century, but alas, it set up a trap for the next generation a generation ago. South Korea is too divided among gender disputes to be ever capable of reconciling, and its population will likely have to worst collapse due to how extreme the difference is going to be between population sizes in the next generation compared to the current one.

Central Asia is growing at a very healthy rate, but sadly its population is also too small to be able to supply even just East Asia by itself.

Europe country survives on the back of the European Union, an entity within Europe that is capable of attracting enough immigrants from across the world ( including non-eu Europe ) as to be able to keep growing its population over time year on year, or at least every 2 years. This gives Southern and Eastern Europe a survival chance as part of the greater entity that is the EU, where these two regions can still have small populations remain on their lands as the EU continues to build these territories as part of their infrastructure projects.

East Asia on the other hand has no such luck. There is no common union among the nation states of East Asia allowing them to cooperate together and build a stronger entity together out of the now collapsing systems of their individual nation states. Each nation state in East Asia is too proud and nationalistic to give up parts of its identity even for the continuance of its people. It is in this manner that Japan, South Korea, and China perish as independent entities.

From the example of these three nation states and the continuing trend of all other nation states following in their example, we can see that the nation state is set to die out as an entity as it reaches its limits as a functional system to govern the people, with only empire equivalents ( in size or complexity ) capable of overcoming the limitations of the nation state that set it to die off over time.

As of now, only the US, European Union, and India sustain the complexity and size of empires allowing them to overcome the limitations of nation states in the future. All other parts of the world are set to collapse unless they are to come together into forming even larger unions and systems of governance.

Conclusion:

2.1 billion humans of the Earth are already in declining population regions of the world with no reversal in trends. 25% of the world's population is already going through population decline on a regional scale and the three regions are Eastern Europe ( including Russia ), Southern Europe, and East Asia. Only joining in a larger union state can save a declining nation state.

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