Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Will the invasion of Ukraine lead to Russia's collapse?" video.

@deankruse2891 Issue is that China is hardly another Superpower to compare with the US yet. It is a growing economy to be sure, but all things considered it barely has any allies near it and is surrounded by US influence and allied nations. In terms of pure geopolitics, China doesn't yet have control over its backyard, let alone the ability to act on the world stage anywhere near as well as the US can. No, China is a potential Superpower.
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@musiccer7446 The US is a leader in education and technology, though. Not literally #1 of course, but no nation is #1 in everything. "Besides, everything where the US is leading is mostly stolen from other countries. Most technologies that the US claims to have invented were stolen." Blatantly untrue, unless you consider having technology from other nations and improving on them as stealing, in which case no nation ever created anything ever and only stole. EU is not a unified structure at all, at least not yet; it could be in the future, but in terms of influence there is very little from the EU -> US but a LOT vice versa. That may change in the future.
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@FOLIPE Issue isn't the sphere of influence; it's the literal invasion to achieve that via the flimsiest of pretexts and the most fascist logic possible. Nobody was afraid that the US was gonna invade a democracy after it invaded Iraq, but Russia's logic is so skewed that it can justify invading literally anybody around them. It's Cold War crap all over again except only Russia is playing that game.
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@musiccer7446 By sheer numbers? Then you're speaking of GDP, right? Because in that term, the EU is #3 on the planet with China having overtaken it. And even China is a long way off from the US still. US: $20T, China: $14T, EU: $13T
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@musiccer7446 1) Edison immigrated to the US, and anyone who does so is considered American by Americans. US rocket science was advanced by Nazi scientists but American scientists took it to their extreme with NASA beyond any other country. I'm not claiming every invention as American, but the fact is that via patents alone, the US is among the most technologically advanced nations on Earth. It helps that it has a lot of money to spend on it. Not that I really care. This is a meaningless conversation; what people did in the past matters less than what people are doing now.
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