No. Right now the EU needs to become one of the world’s superpowers and be in the UN Security Council together with the British Commonwealth, the USA, Russia and China.

The EU is in no way ready to be called “superpower”
It is incapable of agreeing action to combat existential threats to itself, let alone in the rest of the world. It is crippled by ongoing tensions, east/west…north/south….both financial & social.
Its share of world trade has halved in last 25 years, and its aggregate gdp growth has been half that of the non eu g20, let alone asia/Pacific.
Russia is a busted flush….a Saudi Arabia with trees…china, despite its meteoric growth in last 15 years is facing a demographic timebomb due to it’s one child policy, and likely ostracism following recent political moves.
Like it or not, the USA remains the only real superpower for the foreseeable future.

well if you do not consider super-markets as super power, then yes. In the other case there is some issues with the definition of super-market, but I would say that nothing really changed.

I agree

Thanks for valuable panel debate. so many interesting and important pointers. Should EU be more concerned than appears the case about events in Libya and Syria just now.

Online Debate: Are global superpowers a thing of the past?

Global so called ‘superpowers’ are too full of all consuming corruption and not in the best interests of the nations they are said to represent. All is too big to function for the good of those they try to convince are being served.

Just look at the mess we are presently in. Has it in anyway produced a productive step forward for ‘any nation’ to feel safe, financially secure or moving toward a better expectation for their peoples? No. The changes have promoted a situation where many of the countries, said to be high end movers and shakers, are facing civil war with its overwhelming mix of cultures and the mistrust of their political policies. Take a look at the USA and the UK. A lot of this is due directly to the incompetence of the UN. Where are all these unconnected agencies taking us? What is their goal? How have so few individuals ended up with so much? How have so many got away with fraud and misuse of funds in so many parts of these called ‘do gooding’ servers? And how has it taken so long to be addressed? Apart from the obvious filling of trousers, why have those at the top been unwilling to look at the chaos they are forcibly backing and have been for decades? How fiercely they presently try to deny or remove those putting themselves on the line to bring about change, as they smell acceptance in the halls of power for this need? I have to ask, what is going on and why are the imbeciles put in charge, not able to dismantle this misconception and create clarity?

This thread has produced some honest thought. However, as another wrote, are any of you willing to open your eyes and have the courage to make the appropriate moves to adjust to the important corrections. Have the courage to remove incompetent thinkers. Not just make ridiculous slurs at individuals trying to expose reality.

A mix of different cultures with different views on what is needed, with a morality of their preferences being totally opposed from the ground up, isn’t a good foundation for a world view. And toleration of the inept is not going to improve a thing on any level for any of us, either at the top or the bottom.

So, global superpower is an act not fact. The further an ideal moves from the function of nature and a need of the human condition for survival, the more rapidly it falls from grace.

Online Debate: Are global superpowers a thing of the past?

Look at what is taking place in that superpower named ‘leaders of the free world.’ What they are facing today is the result of their inability to face facts, rather than ignore reality and pretend ‘globalism’ is the answer to their future civilisation. Rather than the answer to a comfortable future, it clearly shows ‘globalism’ as the downfall of their economic future and cultural civility. They are in the throws of civil war and do not have a clue what to do about it.

Mind you, a lot of it is being promoted by one political party against another, as the promoters realise unless they bring about this open warfare they will not win the next election. The man in the Washington Whitehouse is too popular with the majority and the only way to be rid of him is by using the race card. That man who leads what he sees as the black party, for his statement was, if you vote Republican you are not black, has to have this stance. He turned the murder of a black criminal into a crime against black citizens because of their race. Which has created the catalyst for civil war in his country.

It has left the USA with a dilemma they should have faced 50 years ago, rather than pretend that an idea called ‘globalism’ was going to solve the problem in their streets. Then continued with the so called ‘globalism’ as a way to remove the working people of jobs to support themselves whilst giving those same jobs to opposing nations called, China, India and Africa. This project gave billionaires the footing they knew would make them ‘masters of the universe.’

Today what should happen on the ground, is the removal of the clean up squad. As law and order has been put into the race class, the only answer can be, to remove ‘white’ policeman and town renovators from the future picture in those areas. Unhappy black people, who have been persuaded their plight is created by ‘white prejudice,’ must get compliance in this ideal. As, by accepting the clean up of the mess created by that thought, now carried out by all black controllers in troubled areas, will diffuse the catalyst. I know in great part this has been accomplished with black Mayors, and those at the top in those cities being all ethnic. Atlanta, for example, has few or no whites in their town hall. They were sacked decades ago in one swoop. That will remove the status that the white race creates their below par living conditions. Thereby encouraging disastrous criminal elements in the back yard, which leads to murder of their people. The responsibility of any actions will then firmly be placed on their own ability to accept law and order as their way of life. Or, not, depending on choice, as the way forward. Why would any community want the clean up of their neighbourhoods, after such devastation carried out, be by the enemy of their people? The oppressors then rid of, once and for all.

Once this has settled in, the global superpowers will know their billionaires are indeed a thing of the past.

The USA needs a new war to sustain its economy. This war is going to happen either somewhere in the world or they will make a Civil war begining with the death of the African American George Floyd.

Bear in mind that the USA does not have an official language!! English is the national language of the Americans, but it is not yet official in their constitution. The USA has tried several times to make English their official language, but they failed to pass the bill.

No. In fact, they are more relevant than ever.

Since the Status Quo there is no more independent superpower as any real major decision must be aligned globally to avoid a WW. Of course there are still things going on under the surface, but it would be stupid to think that they are not authorized by the “global committee”.

Crises are challenges: in the Covid drama there is an opportunity to strengthen the UNO. 🧐