The Changing of The Guard: The Other Superpowers

The Top Three World Economies
1. The People's Republic of China
2. The European Union
3. The United States

                                                      Photo Courtesy of US Treasury 1906

               The United States and Russia both claimed the status of Superpower during the second half of the 20th Century. Since then, the Post World War II era, became known as the Cold War Era, set by a military build up of Nuclear Armaments, Post-Modern Military Alliances, and the political influence between the two major powers. The United Nations, with its 193 members, has maintained worldwide European influence, particularly with matters regarding, The UN Security Council (The United States, The United Kingdom, France, The Russian Federation, and China.) And around the world, former European colonies were coerced to choose between versions of American Democracy and Russian Communism. In the 21st Century, all freedom and liberty has been circumscribed by megalithic imperial interests, global commercial enterprises, religious ideology, ethnic partiality, and ultimately the control of all ideas, which push and sway individual choices into polar accounts of reality.  Still, in the post-Cold War World, the United States has continued its claim of being "the only Superpower," left. Why?
                   In 2010, amid the World Economic Crisis and downgrade of the US credit rating, the United States economy slipped into second and third place behind China and the European Union, according to CIA and World Bank GDP figures. The US mainstream media and propaganda, continued its rhetoric in alternative fact fashion, concealing the real facts through the omission of information about the true state of US affairs. Therefore, this article will inform readers of two monumental facts. The true status of the leading world economies and open the discussion of the intent of omission in popular discourse, the decline of the American Empire.
                The number one economy in the world in 2017 is The People's Republic of China with an annual GDP of $21 Trillion (CIA World Factbook 2016). The second largest economy in the world is The European Union with an annual GDP of $19 Trillion. The third largest economy is the United States with a $18 Trillion economy. The changing of the guard occurred in 2010, under the restructure of the global financial markets in meltdown. Furthermore, a post modern game of musical chairs has ensued with the nations of the world with political and military influence, financial economics, trade alliances, natural resources, technology, information, propaganda, and control of the people or the dissenting population are the pawns. The powerful and the elite of the Old Regime in the 21st Century, will assist the rise of the new technology leaders and will use their technology to continue their age old agenda from the modern era. The leaders of the Other Powers, such as the India or Pakistan,The African Union, which has the greatest potential to usurp global change in the world through resource, military, and population centralization; ASEAN, the Union of South American Nations, and many of the true Middle Eastern Democracies, will find their strength in developing their nations, but their true sovereignty will be challenged without trade and military alliances, and ultimate financial determination outside of the United Nations-World Bank order. This is global politics in the 21st Century.