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Yeah, OP doesn't mention who the 2 superpowers are. Leaves us to draw our own conclusions as to who they are, and currently only one nation has any real ability to project power wherever they need it. So, other than the USA, who is a superpower?
I think it's pretty clear that US doesn't have any real ability to project power wherever they need it. US is very clearly overstretched in Ukraine and the Middle East already, and it's only going to get worse from here. US lacks the industrial base needed for high intensity conflicts, and existing stocks of essential things like artillery shells have been depleted over the past two years.
Then we don't actually have any superpowers. Because if the US isn't one, none of the other countries who think they are, would even come close.
Edit: about the artillery shells, we don’t know how many they actually have.
China is the biggest trading partner for the majority of the world, and it's an industrial juggernaut. That's what an actual superpower looks like. Meanwhile, we know that US has been running around pulling artillery shells from South Korea and Israel last year, and that the entire US production capacity for shells is far below the rate of fire in Ukraine. These are basic facts openly acknowledged by US officials. If US can't even produce basic shit like artillery shells, it's not capable of engaging in any serious conflict.
And their nuke aresnal was found to have water in the fuel tanks.
Not a superpower move.
Edit: I forgot ask lemmy was on .ml and people kinda have rose tint glasses when they view authoritarian regimes on this instance.
Russia is getting ammo from North Korea, drones from the Middle East and don't have domestic chip production for their guided weapons. Their pilots are using phone GPS. The russians don't have the industrial capabilities to prosecute the war that they are in. And if China was up to snuff, why has winnie the pooh conducted multiple purges last year?
You are a tankie and have swallowed their propaganda hook line and sinker. I mean, should we believe the russians when they have said they have destroyed more patriot missile batteries than were given to Ukraine? Especially when patriot missiles keep getting fired...
The Americans are cagey about their strategic reserves, but thinking the country that has 3 of the largest air forces and the largest blue water capable navy in the world isn't a superpower tells me that your brain is decidedly more flat than a surface plate.
Glad you got a laugh, but your assessment is rather lacking a basis in reality.